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Re: Re: numeric MX record and SPF

2004-12-14 06:17:44
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:58:30 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer
<bortzmeyer(_at_)nic(_dot_)fr> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:51:11PM +0000,
 Mark <admin(_at_)asarian-host(_dot_)net> wrote
 a message of 42 lines which said:

I can see the overhead. Would you return NXDOMAIN, though?

SPF never return NXDOMAIN. DNS resolvers do. 

I would like to recall my posting on this again:

"Shouldn't SPF check on this MX record result in NXDOMAIN?"

So, my assertion was right. A SPF check on the MX record would "result
in" NXDOMAIN (i.e. the resolver would throw NXDOMAIN and SPF would
follow accordingly).

[snip]

And I hereby suggest that this is a cause for TempError.


Based on this, would any of the current implementation of SPF give any
indication about this particular case or be generic and say
"TempError" only?