[170912] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: responding to DMARC breakage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Sat Apr 12 13:17:19 2014
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 13:12:36 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
CC: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <9112.1397321344@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 10:12:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman said:
>
>> It occurs to me that Yahoo's deployment of DMARC p=reject, and the
>> choice of several big mail operators to honor that, has created a
>> situation not unlike a really routing table or nameserver, snafu ---
> It's more like a peering war. Time for somebody to either bake a cake,
> or find alternate transit providers.
Aaargghhh - what a horrible, but accurate analogy. Worse probably -
more like a peering war with a large broadband carrier, at the edge,
where it's harder to find alternate transport.
Sigh..
Miles
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
