Re: [Asrg] misconception in SPF

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 08 December 2012 20:37 UTC

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Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:36:54 -0000
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>It is easy to do the opposite, though.  For example, having
>
>  leila.iecc.com TXT "v=spf1 redirect=iecc.com"

It's not easy if I have to add an extra TXT record for each of the
thousands of A records in my DNS zones.

>Aren't there generic (i.e. non spf-specific) DNS conventions for
>publishing such relationships?

There's CNAME, but that doesn't do what we want here.