Re: [spfbis] RFC6147 and RFC7208 interoperability issues

Ángel <angel@16bits.net> Mon, 07 February 2022 22:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [spfbis] RFC6147 and RFC7208 interoperability issues
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On 2022-02-07 at 02:30 +0000, Klaus Frank wrote:
> Why? Such a query would resolve in the mailserver would make the DNS 
> lookup. The DNS64 server than would synthetically add an AAAA-RR to
> the response.

The issue is not that the response contains an A record but that the
queried domain embeds the remote IP.

The A result is usually a 127.0.0.x address, with some "magic" meaning
(perhaps lost if translated into IPv6) but the main problem is querying
the right label.