Subject: Re: a detour DANE, was A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 08:47:19AM +0000 Quoting Mike Meredith (mike.meredith@port.ac.uk):
On 27 Feb 2019 13:07:09 -0500, "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> may have written:
The IETF one says that nobody used type 99, and some of the few implementations we saw were broken, so we deprecated it.
And just after I'd finished adding in all the SPF records too, so I had to turn around and take all them out again immediately after.
You did not have to. I still have them in. (As well as TXT records that almost look like them, but mostly are there to tickle parser bugs. ) I still get queries for SPF. Obviously "TXT as RRtype for SPF data" is a failure and needs to be re-deprecated. (No, I'm joking, but I wish I wasn't.) Type-squatting is bad for the Internet, and should be discouraged. And, Carthago should be destroyed. -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE SA0XLR +46 705 989668 Yow! Now I get to think about all the BAD THINGS I did to a BOWLING BALL when I was in JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL!