> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:dkim-ops-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of John Levine
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:10 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [dkim-ops] Yahoo/BellSouth configuration
> 
> But it's also a bug at your end, since the DKIM spec is quite clear
> that a signature that can't be verified is equivalent to no signature.
> Your fix was the correct one, turn off the buggy code that rejects
> mail on a DKIM DNS lookup failure.

I don't agree that this is the right action in all cases, nor that "can't be 
verified" includes transient DNS errors.  I took "can't be verified" in RFC4871 
to mean only "the crypto didn't add up".

If the DNS times out, I think that's inconclusive, and I'd prefer to temp-fail 
in that case.

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