> On Apr 17, 2024, at 6:20 PM, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
> 
> It appears that Todd Herr  <todd.h...@valimail.com> said:
>> When DMARC was first developed, there was concern about DNS load and
>> needing to minimize DNS lookups. Operational expertise now shows that this
>> is no longer cause for concern.
>> 
>> Short circuiting a tree walk has led to many issues, like a reliance on the
>> PSL, complicated algorithms for Org Domain discovery, ...
> 
> I have to say I have some sympathy for just taking out the limit and
> if you sometimes need to walk umpteen levels on stupid domains, so be
> it.
> 
> Or I suppose say if there's more than 8 components in the name, just stop 
> because no domain
> actually used for mail is that deep.  Take out the skip stuff.

Yeah, you aren’t designing for the perfect storm edge case.
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