Re: [ietf-dkim] wildcards, was Focusing on 4871bis

2010-10-25 Thread John R. Levine
hangText=NOTE: The use of wildcard TXT records in the DNS will produce a response to a DKIM query that is unlikely to be valid DKIM key record. This problem applies to many other types of queries, and client software that processes DNS responses needs to take this

Re: [ietf-dkim] wildcards, was Focusing on 4871bis

2010-10-25 Thread Eliot Lear
On 10/25/10 5:11 PM, John R. Levine wrote: Forgive me if I repeat myself, but I still don't see anything wrong with this: *._domainkey.example.com IN TXT v=DKIM1; p=; n=revoked I'm trying to figure out the clearest way to say that wildcards for key records within the _domainkey subtree

Re: [ietf-dkim] wildcards, was Focusing on 4871bis

2010-10-25 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 10/25/2010 10:26 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: Won't be visible because you are querying what amounts to a specific application through the use of the label. ... There should be no other existing records, and if so, they're there to override the wildcard. Right. The underscore naming

Re: [ietf-dkim] wildcards, was Focusing on 4871bis

2010-10-25 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 25, 2010, at 8:11 AM, John R. Levine wrote: hangText=NOTE: The use of wildcard TXT records in the DNS will produce a response to a DKIM query that is unlikely to be valid DKIM key record. This problem applies to many other types of queries, and client software that

Re: [ietf-dkim] wildcards, was Focusing on 4871bis

2010-10-25 Thread John R. Levine
Forgive me if I repeat myself, but I still don't see anything wrong with this: *._domainkey.example.com IN TXT v=DKIM1; p=; n=revoked Do you have an actual use case for that sort of thing, or is it just an example to poke at the thou shalt not wildcard wording? That example above revokes

Re: [ietf-dkim] wildcards, was Focusing on 4871bis

2010-10-25 Thread Hector Santos
John, The reported issue was about *mixed* TXT usage caused by wildcards. And it amounted to a large Domain Hosting vendor ONLY offering this for spf: *.example.com IN TXT v=spf1 .. And that created mixed query results after adding DKIM related TXT records. The proposed