Slighty OT: GoDaddy and SPF records...
Howdy folks, Was curious to see if anyone on the list has ever been successful with setting up SPF records on their domains that are hosted on GD nameservers... It appears they only let you configure TXT spf records, not actual SPF records. Anyone ever come across this before? Cheers, Mike
Hi Mike spf records are actually a special syntax based txt records starting with v=spf1 you can checkout http://openspf.org for bit of details. It is project's official site and also has simple wizard tool for generating req. spf which is published as txt record. Hope that will help you. On 1/18/12, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
Howdy folks,
Was curious to see if anyone on the list has ever been successful with setting up SPF records on their domains that are hosted on GD nameservers... It appears they only let you configure TXT spf records, not actual SPF records.
Anyone ever come across this before?
Cheers, Mike
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com> wrote:
Hi Mike
spf records are actually a special syntax based txt records starting with v=spf1
A SPF DNS record is RR TYPE CODE 99 http://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters RFC4408
A SPF compliant domain should have BOTH the TXT RR and a SPF RR. -- -JH
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
Howdy folks,
Was curious to see if anyone on the list has ever been successful with setting up SPF records on their domains that are hosted on GD nameservers... It appears they only let you configure TXT spf records, not actual SPF records.
I believe this is because historically GoDaddy used bboy's MyDNS[1] which does not support SPF type records[2]. However it seems they are now using Verisign's ATLAS[3] so perhaps the UI and some backend code simply has yet to be developed? -Rohan [1] http://mydns.bboy.net/ [2] http://mydns.bboy.net/doc/html/mydns_11.html#SEC11 [3] rohan@dragonite:~> fpdns ns35.domaincontrol.com 2>/dev/null fingerprint (ns35.domaincontrol.com, 216.69.185.18): VeriSign ATLAS
On 1/17/2012 11:59 AM, Mike Lyon wrote:
Was curious to see if anyone on the list has ever been successful with setting up SPF records on their domains that are hosted on GD nameservers... It appears they only let you configure TXT spf records, not actual SPF records.
Let me quickly reiterate what Anurag Bhatia has already told you. TXT records are what you need. I went through a LOT of completely unnecessary suffering, and discovered that while you CAN create an SPF record, what you really need is a TXT record that performs this service. Save yourself some suffering, and don't even bother with the SPF record (this is for those of you who are just now considering making such a thing). GoDaddy (for once) has saved you some sadness, here. -- Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something they thought they had irretrievably lost.
I fully agree. http://www.circleid.com/posts/spf_loses_mindshare/ dates back to 2005. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Lynda <shrdlu@deaddrop.org> wrote:
Let me quickly reiterate what Anurag Bhatia has already told you. TXT records are what you need. I went through a LOT of completely unnecessary suffering, and discovered that while you CAN create an SPF record, what you really need is a TXT record that performs this service.
Save yourself some suffering, and don't even bother with the SPF record (this is for those of you who are just now considering making such a thing). GoDaddy (for once) has saved you some sadness, here.
-- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
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