spf ent txt records.

2013-03-13 Thread hugo hugoo
Dear all, I received the following question and I am not able to aswer as spf records are still mysterious to me. We are using BIND 9.7. Thanks in advance for your answers, Hugo, Does our DNS-server support SPF-type records? Or do we put SPF-info in a TXT-record? Ref. : Early

Re: spf ent txt records.

2013-03-13 Thread Leonardo Santagostini
Hello Hugo, You can try looking at your zone files for SPF records and/or TXT containing spf stuff. You con implement SPF records as you wish. Maybe you can take a look at: http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/spf.html Saludos / Regards Leonardo Santagostini

Re: spf ent txt records.

2013-03-13 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Does our DNS-server support SPF-type records? Or do we put SPF-info in a TXT-record? BIND has supported SPF records since 9.4 I think, so yes. Their functionality is identical (i.e. define both if you want/need both) name ttl class TXT text name ttl class SPF

Re: spf ent txt records.

2013-03-13 Thread Sten Carlsen
I used both types with Bind 9.2.1, so both types should work for you. As I recall the only difference was txt - spf as RR type. hugo hugoo hugo...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear all, I received the following question and I am not able to aswer as spf records are still mysterious to me. We are using

Re: spf ent txt records.

2013-03-13 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, hugo hugoo wrote: I received the following question and I am not able to aswer as spf records are still mysterious to me. We are using BIND 9.7. Does our DNS-server support SPF-type records? Or do we put SPF-info in a TXT-record? My answers would be Yes and

Re: spf ent txt records.

2013-03-13 Thread Shane Kerr
Hugo, On Wednesday, 2013-03-13 11:33:35 +, hugo hugoo hugo...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear all, I received the following question and I am not able to aswer as spf records are still mysterious to me. We are using BIND 9.7. Thanks in advance for your answers, Hugo, Does our

Building from source and running in chroot environment

2013-03-13 Thread Spumonti Spumonti
Are there relatively recent instructions on how to build BIND from source and run it in a chroot environment? It sounds obvious but everything I've come across assumes BIND is provided by some package manager or included with the operating system. I'd like to build the latest version of BIND

Re: spf ent txt records.

2013-03-13 Thread Dave Warren
On 3/13/2013 05:09, G.W. Haywood wrote: Ref. : Early implementations used TXT records for implementation before the new record type was commonly available in DNS software. Use of TXT records for SPF was intended as a transitional mechanism. However, according to the current RFC, RFC 4408,

Re: Building from source and running in chroot environment

2013-03-13 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:24:18AM -0700, Spumonti Spumonti wrote: Are there relatively recent instructions on how to build BIND from source and run it in a chroot environment? It sounds obvious but everything I've come across assumes BIND is provided by some package manager or included

Re: spf ent txt records.

2013-03-13 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 14:43 -0700, Dave Warren wrote: I almost wouldn't bother with SPF records these days though, except that the code was already written. # grep SPF maillog |grep -c '\-all' 2438 # grep SPF maillog |grep -c '\~all' 7509 since midnight Sunday... looks like its worth

Re: spf ent txt records.

2013-03-13 Thread Dave Warren
On 3/13/2013 17:11, Noel Butler wrote: On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 14:43 -0700, Dave Warren wrote: I almost wouldn't bother with SPF records these days though, except that the code was already written. # grep SPF maillog |grep -c '\-all' 2438 # grep SPF maillog |grep -c '\~all' 7509 Can you