Re: The demon problem, ancestor matching, and match_subdomains=yes

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 02:20:09AM +0100, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:
| Doesn't this work just like the proposed match_subdomains?
| 
| *.demon.co.uk             TXT "v=spf1 include:demon.co.uk"
| specificuser1.demon.co.uk TXT "v=spf1 a -all"
| specificuser2.demon.co.uk TXT "v=spf1 mx ~all"
| 
| It has the advantage of not having to query the parent domain if there
| is no record.
| 
| Am I missing something perhaps?

It would be nice if wildcards worked like that, but they don't,
unfortunately; if there's any record at all for a subdomain, the
wildcard doesn't go in.