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Re: SPF records at AltaVista

2004-05-28 11:02:30
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:00:26AM -0700, Nate Leon wrote:
| When I used AltaVista against the testing tool, I expected it to tell me
| that AltaVista does not authorize my IP address to send mail, but
| instead I got this message after 60 seconds:
|       "SPF encountered a transient error during SPF analysis"

looks like the spf.altavista.com nameserver is timing out.

    20040528-14:01:14 mengwong(_at_)dumbo:~% perl -MMail::SPF::Query -le 'print 
for Mail::SPF::Query->new(helo=>shift, ipv4=>shift, sender=>shift, trusted=>0, 
debug=>1)->result' Barbara 213.58.10.230 "mengwong(_at_)altavista(_dot_)com"
    |         altavista.com new: ipv4=213.58.10.230, 
sender=mengwong(_at_)altavista(_dot_)com, helo=Barbara
    |        mengwong altavista.com localpart is mengwong
    |        mengwong altavista.com   DirectiveSet->new(): doing TXT query on 
altavista.com
    |        mengwong altavista.com   myquery: doing TXT query on altavista.com
    |        mengwong altavista.com   DirectiveSet->new(): TXT query on 
altavista.com returned error=, last_dns_error=NOERROR
    |        mengwong altavista.com   DirectiveSet->new(): SPF policy:  
+exists:CL.%{i}.FR.%{s}.HE.%{h}.null.spf.altavista.com -all
    |        mengwong altavista.com   lookup:   TXT  
+exists:CL.%{i}.FR.%{s}.HE.%{h}.null.spf.altavista.com -all
    |        mengwong altavista.com   lookup:   TXT prefix=+, lhs=exists, 
rhs=CL.%{i}.FR.%{s}.HE.%{h}.null.spf.altavista.com
    |        mengwong altavista.com   lookup:   TXT prefix=-, lhs=all, rhs=
    |        mengwong altavista.com   lookup:  mec 
mechanisms=+exists(CL.%{i}.FR.%{s}.HE.%{h}.null.spf.altavista.com) -all()
    |        mengwong altavista.com   evaluate_mechanism: 
+exists(CL.%{i}.FR.%{s}.HE.%{h}.null.spf.altavista.com) for domain=altavista.com
    |        mengwong altavista.com   macro_substitute_item: i: field=i, num=, 
reverse=, delim=., newval=213.58.10.230
    |        mengwong altavista.com   macro_substitute_item: s: field=s, num=, 
reverse=, delim=., newval=mengwong(_at_)altavista(_dot_)com
    |        mengwong altavista.com   macro_substitute_item: h: field=h, num=, 
reverse=, delim=., newval=Barbara
    |        mengwong altavista.com   macro_substitute: 
CL.%{i}.FR.%{s}.HE.%{h}.null.spf.altavista.com -> 
CL(_dot_)213(_dot_)58(_dot_)10(_dot_)230(_dot_)FR(_dot_)mengwong(_at_)altavista(_dot_)com(_dot_)HE(_dot_)Barbara(_dot_)null(_dot_)spf(_dot_)altavista(_dot_)com
    |        mengwong altavista.com   mechanism exists: looking up 
CL(_dot_)213(_dot_)58(_dot_)10(_dot_)230(_dot_)FR(_dot_)mengwong(_at_)altavista(_dot_)com(_dot_)HE(_dot_)Barbara(_dot_)null(_dot_)spf(_dot_)altavista(_dot_)com
    |        mengwong altavista.com   myquery: doing A query on 
CL(_dot_)213(_dot_)58(_dot_)10(_dot_)230(_dot_)FR(_dot_)mengwong(_at_)altavista(_dot_)com(_dot_)HE(_dot_)Barbara(_dot_)null(_dot_)spf(_dot_)altavista(_dot_)com
    |        mengwong altavista.com   myquery: 
CL(_dot_)213(_dot_)58(_dot_)10(_dot_)230(_dot_)FR(_dot_)mengwong(_at_)altavista(_dot_)com(_dot_)HE(_dot_)Barbara(_dot_)null(_dot_)spf(_dot_)altavista(_dot_)com
 A lookup error: query timed out
    |        mengwong altavista.com   myquery: will set error condition.
    |        mengwong altavista.com   evaluate_mechanism: 
+exists(CL.%{i}.FR.%{s}.HE.%{h}.null.spf.altavista.com) returned
    |        mengwong altavista.com   returning temporary error: DNS error 
while looking up 
CL(_dot_)213(_dot_)58(_dot_)10(_dot_)230(_dot_)FR(_dot_)mengwong(_at_)altavista(_dot_)com(_dot_)HE(_dot_)Barbara(_dot_)null(_dot_)spf(_dot_)altavista(_dot_)com
 A: query timed out
    |        mengwong altavista.com header_comment: spf_source = domain of 
mengwong(_at_)altavista(_dot_)com
    |        mengwong altavista.com header_comment: spf_source_type = 
original-spf-record
    error
    SPF record error: DNS error while looking up 
CL(_dot_)213(_dot_)58(_dot_)10(_dot_)230(_dot_)FR(_dot_)mengwong(_at_)altavista(_dot_)com(_dot_)HE(_dot_)Barbara(_dot_)null(_dot_)spf(_dot_)altavista(_dot_)com
 A: query timed out
    dumbo.pobox.com: encountered temporary error during SPF processing of 
domain of mengwong(_at_)altavista(_dot_)com

note that the %{h} macro will be deprecated in future releases of SPF.


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