Re: The IANA has assigned us DNS number 99 for SPF

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 12:29 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Jeroen Massar:
>
> > You don't really have to, just use, per RFC3597:
> >
> > TYPE99 "v=spf1 ..."
> >
> > You will have to wait till somebody has patched yours to do SPF instead
> > of TYPE99 indeed.
> >
> > For you to check:
> >
> > $ host -t 99 sixxs.com
> > sixxs.com  99  #(                         ; unknown type
> >     76 3D 73 70 66 31 20 2D 61 6C 6C  ; v=spf1 -all     
> >     )
> This is incorrect, I think.  There's a 0B length indicator missing at
> the beginning of the data.  The SPF draft says that, "The format of
> this type is identical to the TXT RR [RFC1035]."
The dig reveals:

sixxs.com. TYPE99 \# 11 763D73706631202D616C6C

the "11" is the "length indicator", the RDATA being 11 long.

Greets,
 Jeroen


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