At 08:06 PM 10/4/2004 -0400, Meng Weng Wong
<mengwong(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 06:30:11PM -0400, Hector Santos wrote:
|
| Do you explain this Meng, maybe by showing an example? Maybe this has
been
| done, but what isn't clear how is a SPF domain record defined for the
client
| domain name. For example, if HELO mail.winserver.com is issued, is the
| lookup on "mail.winserver.com" or "winserver.com"
|
the lookup is on mail.winserver.com, and a FAIL result
should cause a reject.
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Personally, I am getting more confused as this discussion progresses.
The machine name for our Sendmail server is Server1.yellowhead.com, and
after discovering that it was not using this fully qualified name on the
outbound HELO, it was corrected. However, this is not the name of any of
the domains that it acts as mail server for. It is not possible to use the
correct name for each domain on the HELO, because all but one of these
domains are pseudo names. The only record you will find for
Server1.yellowhead.com is an "A" record. There are no "MX" records or "TXT"
records.
What is the point of checking anything on the fully qualified domain name?
The Host name (Server1) has no meaning: only the domain name
(yellowhead.com) portion will produce any meaningfull results as far as SPF
is concerned.
J.A. Coutts