On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:09:21PM +0100, Julian Mehnle wrote:
I do realize that using a macro processor is a viable solution, and I
might even look into it myself. But do you really expect everyone who
wants to deploy SPF and who has a non-trivial domain portfolio to start
using a macro processor?
Well, it's where SPF is at. How many domains are using SPF now? It's
clearly not a critical problem, as many thousands of domains have managed
it already.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:08:09PM +0100, Julian Mehnle wrote:
Stephane Bortzmeyer [bortzmeyer(_at_)nic(_dot_)fr] wrote:
Seriously, how many people with hundreds of hosts manage the zone file
by hand? They use M4, CPP, XSLT, Perl, but they use something.
s/hundreds/dozens/
# Maintanability is an issue for much less than "hundreds" of hosts.
This is just an assumption. Can you prove it?
Sorry, I don't want to be a pain in the ass, but I really think this is a
bold claim.
I'm not quite sure what you're saying is a bold claim, but I reckon that
we got up to managing 20 or 30 domains (with varying numbers of hosts, none
particularly large) before it became too unwieldy to manage reliably by
hand.
Frankly, if you're able to manage A records by hand, you should be able to
manage SPF records by hand. And if not, well then you've already got a tool
which you should be able to use to manage SPF records too.
That observation, combined with the quantity of people already publishing
SPF, should be ample evidence that messing about with new features to make
management easier is not as important as documenting the status quo.
Cheers,
Nick