On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 16:52 -0700, SM wrote: > SPF RR type
Had a bit of a read of that thread, and the most noise comes from a guy who should know better, but doesn't, Mr Kitterman repeatedly says "If it's all so obvious that it makes sense to publish SPF records, why aren't more people doing it? " The answer is simple, and he knows it, very few system admins know or care about which specific RFC covers what, they hear things, it gains momentum, like googling for anti spam, stop spoofing, stuff like that, Ohhh they say, 'nice, I'll check that out' they load google "create an SPF record" Now google shows me as of 60 seconds ago, first five entries using only TXT RR's as examples (at lucky number 6 it shows me someone saying to use SPF RR) So, new -to-spf adminy type, fires up vi, pico, whatever... adds it, it works! yay they say, they spread the word, " adminy2 says" nice how did you do it" adminy1 shows adminy2 copies, and its just like life, the cycle repeats over and over and... Secondly, Mr Kitterman, as a debian packager, would be highly aware of how many "deprecated" versions of debian are out there running resolvers that do not understand SPF and have not been supported by any upstream in ten years, and, I'm sure that is also probably true of early RHEL's as well. Back in the dark ages, I learned about SPF from word-of-mouth too, like most here I'm sure, and if WOM shows you one way, thats the way you do it, lets face it, you discover a new method, you dont go rushing to rfc website to read all about it, I have only been doing SPF RR's since hrmm, maybe 4 years back? not sure, too long ago, but have used TXT since, it started to get bandied around the sendmail newsgroup some ancient time ago. I found out about the existence of SPF RR type, from this very list, how many subscribers to this list? 1500 odd, how many sys admins world wide? hundred thousand plus maybe, how many are even aware of the SPF RR? probably not that many, I recently discovered that a 'drinks session' out of 9 sys admins, myself and ONE other were even aware of the SRV RR type. Not all corporations/SP's/ASP's or ISP's, have dedicated DNS admins who can concentrate full time on all things DNS, I'm not a full time DNS admin, since it works nicely and doesnt occupy all my time :) Many of the domain parking organisations are just as guilty, even up until two years ago, I used zoneedit for my personal DNS, and they did not have an option for SPF, I hounded them for a couple of months before they eventually replied saying, no intentions, so how many others also did not offer it. So, there are a myriad of reasons as to why the SPF RR type 99 never "took of"
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