On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 02:35:13PM +0000, Marc van de Geijn wrote: > Thanks, Arsen, for this information. > > Are there any statistics on the number of mailservers/... requesting SPF > records instead of TXT records? >
I know some of the software on our mailservers doesn't even try SPF. isc.org and ietf.org do publish both, but they seem to be the exception. hotmail.com , gmail.com , sendmail.com and many others only have TXT and no SPF. > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Arsen STASIC [mailto:arsen.sta...@univie.ac.at] > Verzonden: donderdag 6 september 2012 16:15 > Aan: Marc van de Geijn > CC: Peter van Dijk; pdns-users Users > Onderwerp: Re: [Pdns-users] publish SPF and TXT records? > > * Marc van de Geijn <m...@bhosted.nl> [2012-09-05 16:14 (+0000)]: > > According to rfc's the dns server should publish both spf and txt. We now > > create the spf, but not the txt version of the same spf. > > Hi Marc, > > Just take into consideration the ongoing IETF discussion about obsoleting SPF > RR. > > 12.1. The SPF DNS Record Type > > Per [RFC4408], the IANA assigned the Resource Record Type and Qtype > from the DNS Parameters Registry for the SPF RR type with code 99. > The format of this type is identical to the TXT RR [RFC1035]. The > character content of the record is encoded as [US-ASCII]. Use of > this record type is obsolete for SPF Version 1. > > IANA is requested to add an annotation to the SPF RRTYPE saying > "(OBSOLETE - use TXT)" in the DNS Parameters registry. > > [NOTE TO RFC EDITOR: (to be changed to " ... has added ..." upon > publication)] > > This is taken from the latest draft: > https://tools.ietf.org/wg/spfbis/draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis/draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis-06-from-05.wdiff.html > > just my 2ct > -arsen > _______________________________________________ > Pdns-users mailing list > Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com > http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users