[148533] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Slighty OT: GoDaddy and SPF records...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Jan 17 23:17:33 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F15DA0F.6010508@deaddrop.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:46:35 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Lynda <shrdlu@deaddrop.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I fully agree. http://www.circleid.com/posts/spf_loses_mindshare/
dates back to 2005.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Lynda <shrdlu@deaddrop.org> wrote:
> Let me quickly reiterate what Anurag Bhatia has already told you. TXT
> records are what you need. I went through a LOT of completely unnecessary
> suffering, and discovered that while you CAN create an SPF record, what you
> really need is a TXT record that performs this service.
>
> Save yourself some suffering, and don't even bother with the SPF record
> (this is for those of you who are just now considering making such a thing).
> GoDaddy (for once) has saved you some sadness, here.
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
