On December 7, 2014 12:28:12 PM EST, John <j...@klam.ca> wrote: >Are SPF DNS records deprecated. i was checking my setup using MXTools >and it comes back with a warning then SPF records are no longer >"supported". >When I look for docs on the internet, I get two answers( 3 actually) >a) no they are current, >b) they have been dropped, >c) articals that only discuss TXT records > >a) + b) are usually more recent, c) can be any age. > >And just to make life a little more interesting, the Bind9 log show an >entry "general: warning: zone klam.ca/IN/external: 'klam.ca' found >SPF/TXT record but no SPF/SPF record found, add matching type SPF >recor..."! > >Not a life or death issue, just a confusing! > >John A
Support for use of DNS Type SPF (99) was dropped from RFC 7208, the recently published standards track update to RFC 4408. Further discussion would be on topic on spf-help or spf-discuss. See www.openspf.org/Forums for subscription information. Scott K
