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[OT] ACHTUNG hostmaster of nixtra.com

2004-10-13 06:54:17
To the operator of the 'nixtra.com' network if you are a participant of
this list, or someone here is affiliated with or knows the
owner/operator of this network please inform them of the following:

Your SPF record is extremely broken and results in a breach of the
maximum recursive level as is recommended by the SPFv1 RFC Draft (20
levels).

There are multiple problems with the nixtra.com SPF record.

#1) nixtra.com 'includes' its self 
#2) nixtra.com 'includes' nixtra.net which publishes and identical
    record to that of nixtra.com.

If you were not already aware this will cause a parse to fail by the
repetitive inclusion of the same domains in addition to likely causing a
substantial delay on anyone receiving mail often from your network.

Please make use of the 'SPF record test page' available freely at
http://spftools.net.  An example test can be viewed by using the
following URL: 

http://spftools.net/check.php?action=spfcheck&ipv4=10.0.0.2&helo=spftools.net&sender=test%40nixtra.com#result

Alternatively you can make use of the 'SPF Query Tool' binary (spfqtool)
found within the libSPF library available @ http://libSPF.org or the
query tools available in the alternate SPF implementations available
from http://spf.pobox.com in the files/downloads section.

james(_at_)code3 ~ $ spfqtool -i 10.0.0.1 -s test(_at_)nixtra(_dot_)com -h 
code3.6o4.ca -d 1
SPF Query Tool v0.3 - James Couzens <jcouzens(_at_)codeshare(_dot_)ca>
[DEBUG]: Debugging level:    1
[DEBUG]: RFC2821 Mail From:  test(_at_)nixtra(_dot_)com
[DEBUG]: RFC2821 HELO:       code3.6o4.ca
[DEBUG]: Purported address:  10.0.0.1
[DEBUG]: SPF Explanation:    Disabled
[DEBUG]: Trusted Forwarder:  Disabled
[DEBUG]: Best Guess:         Disabled

SPF short result:   unknown
SPF verbose result: policy result: (unknown) from rule (-all)
RFC2822 header:     Received-SPF: unknown (code3.6o4.ca: domain of 
test(_at_)nixtra(_dot_)com encountered an error while parsing (check SPF record 
nixtra.com for errors))

Please rectify this immediately.

This message has also been sent to hostmaster(_at_)nixtra(_dot_)com,
postmaster(_at_)nixtra(_dot_)com, abuse(_at_)nixtra(_dot_)com and 
abuse(_at_)nixtra(_dot_)net(_dot_) 

Cheers,

James

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James Couzens,
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