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Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Oct 4 14:38:54 2010

In-Reply-To: <9C9322AB-CB58-405A-ADA5-A74B2238A2B3@oicr.on.ca>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:38:42 -0400
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca> wro=
te:
>
> A partner had a security audit done on their site. =C2=A0The report said =
they were at risk of a DoS due to the fact they didn't have a SPF record.

This is pure unadulterated BS from someone who doesnt understand
either DDOS mitigation, or SPF .. or more likely both.

--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)


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