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Re: AOL to ESPs: Comply with SPF, Or Else

2004-06-14 10:41:36

On Monday 14 Jun 2004 00:51, Seth Goodman wrote:
I believe you use Interland, Tim, as do I.  Last time I checked, tech
support told me that if I want TXT records, go to an outside DNS provider,
make sure there are appropriate MX and A records, then point the SOA to the
new DNS provider.  For domains that are smaller than a class C netblock,
they would still maintain control of rDNS, which is an appropriate policy.
They even offered to help by specifying exactly what records to put in the
foreign DNS service, so they were definitely not hostile to the idea.  They
are large, conservative and will therefore be late adopters.  Not to worry,
they will do it when they see sufficient industry adoption.

Thanks for the heads-up Seth: I was an Innerhost customer when Interland took 
over and they've told me they'll support my existing setup but won't offer 
support for any changes (so I don't even get web control panels etc.) until I 
change over to an Interland account, and they don't support the setup I want 
as Interland.

So it was, strictly speaking, wrong of me to extrapolate my special case to 
suggesting Interland don't support SPF or external DNS at all (sorry for the 
misinformation) but it's still a long way from "out-of-the-box 
checkbox-on-feature-list" level support. 

I fully agree that once we get a few hosting companies supporting SPF at this 
level, the other big companies like Interland will suddenly realise the 
marketecture benefits and add support too.

Cheers

--
Tim