On Monday, December 20, 2021 12:10:31 PM EST Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> On Mon 20/Dec/2021 12:53:12 +0100 Douglas Foster wrote:
> > I am not doing any root domain lookups.   If that is part of the proposed
> > algorithm, somebody needs to document it.  I am simply looking for a
> > resource record matching the FROM domain name.
> 
> Oops, yes, you're right.  Dunno why I looked up their org domain, probably
> lack of caffeine...
> 
> Those 10 domains are non-existing under 3.2.6.  Only 4 of them return
> NXDOMAIN.
> 
> One of them, mail.foodnetwork.com, has its own DMARC record with a policy
> different from that of its parent domain, which can be a reason to use a
> subdomain.  (Curiously, it is one of those returning NXDOMAIN.)
> 
> For the other 9, all what I can think of is some kind of misconfiguration. 
> I asked a few times why would one want to use a non-existing domain for the
> From: address, but got no answers.  Anyway, your numbers show that it's not
> a very frequent setup.

... for legitimate mail.

Scott K


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