Re: DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

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On Feb 27, 2012, at 5:56 PM, John Levine wrote:

> The problem is provisioning software.  We weenies can stuff anything
> into our DNS servers we want, because we use vi and emacs and (in my
> case) custom perl scripts.  For the other 99.5% of the world, what
> they can put in their DNS zones is limited to whatever the web
> provisioning software at their registrar or ISP or web host supports,
> and I challenge you to find any that supports SPF records.


Er, so? If the tool to bundle up the needed bits for SPF-as-text and SPF-as-binary are similarly trivial, why should we care if people who want to use a feature of the Internet can't persuade their provider to make a trivial change.

Soon, y'all will be saying we should give up on DNSSEC because so few registrars support it in their web UIs.

--Paul Hoffman

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