[148512] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Slighty OT: GoDaddy and SPF records...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rohan Sheth)
Tue Jan 17 15:21:00 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAFFgAjCu8SYNL4uASTZMbyRNYWGbbFhH+p-8R76vFZ7QY7RoGg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:20:09 -0800
From: Rohan Sheth <rohan@rs3net.net>
To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy folks,
>
> Was curious to see if anyone on the list has ever been successful with
> setting up SPF records on their domains that are hosted on GD
> nameservers... It appears they only let you configure TXT spf records, not
> actual SPF records.
>
I believe this is because historically GoDaddy used bboy's MyDNS[1]
which does not support SPF type records[2]. However it seems they are
now using Verisign's ATLAS[3] so perhaps the UI and some backend code
simply has yet to be developed?
-Rohan
[1] http://mydns.bboy.net/
[2] http://mydns.bboy.net/doc/html/mydns_11.html#SEC11
[3] rohan@dragonite:~> fpdns ns35.domaincontrol.com 2>/dev/null
fingerprint (ns35.domaincontrol.com, 216.69.185.18): VeriSign ATLAS
