[PLUG] SPF records in DNS zone files

Ed Sawicki ed at alcpress.com
Tue Mar 30 13:34:01 UTC 2004


Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Are folks adding spf records to their dns zone files? Aracnet did so for
> my domain when I asked this morning. The format is simple:
> 
> domain_name.tld		IN TXT	"v=spf1 a mx ptr -all"
> 
>   With this in place, spf-enabled MTAs can verify that mail supposedly from
> your domain name was sent by a defined mail server at your IP address. Seems
> to me this will help reduce spam once spf records are generally implemented.

I did that to all my domains a few months back. However, I've not yet
done what's necessary to have my mail servers check SPF on incoming mail.
Too much cool stuff to do - so little time.

Ed





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