[130510] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Loftis)
Mon Oct 4 18:25:13 2010
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:24:55 -0600
From: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim49jQpFe3tKfuqG8TG4V7Y4mfZ2fMM3jiNEtB+@mail.gmail.com>
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--On Monday, October 04, 2010 9:54 AM -0700 John Adams <jna@retina.net>
wrote:
> Without proper SPF records your mail stands little chance of making it
> through some of the larger providers, like gmail, if you are sending
> in any high volume. You should be using SPF, DK, and DKIM signing.
>
> I don't really understand how your security company related SPF to DoS
> though. They're unrelated, with the exception of backscatter.
FUD most likely, that's the stock in trade for almost all "security audit"
firms.
>
> -j
