Stephane,

Since it sounds like you have looked, what proportion of domains you
surveyed has a wildcard?  What kinds of wildcards are there:   MX
wildcards?  Wildcarded A records?  Wildcarded TXT due to SPF?

-Jim

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:09:38PM +0100,
>  John L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
>  a message of 22 lines which said:
>
>   
>> I'd suggest doing a lookup for A for _domainkey.$DOMAIN, and if you
>> get NOERROR (that is, 0 records but no error code), then check
>> *.$DOMAIN.
>>     
>
> I've finally used such an algorithm, but more detailed (you can find a
> lot of strange things in the DNS). I attach the Python module which
> tests if a domain has a wildcard.
>
> But it does not solve completely my "find DKIM records" problem since,
> now, I find the records only in non-wildcarded domains. The wildcarded
> domains may be have DKIM and may be not, there is no way of finding it
> in the DNS. So, it seems you cannot really survey the deployment of
> DKIM by just asking the DNS (unlike what happens with SPF).
>
> Thanks for all those who helped.
>
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