Re: Source routing -- why not?
"John R Levine" <[email protected]>
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> > After further deliberation about source routing and SPF, I have come > > around to the conclusion that Frank is to some degree right, and if > > you want to use SPF/Sender-ID, you should use source routes. > > Source routes require all mail servers to be open relays. Only in a naive implementation. SPF already requires that participating hosts be prepared to handle arbitrarily complex procedures, so adding one more shouldn't be a big deal. If it is a big deal, well, perhaps we're seeing a problem with SPF more than with source routes. Regards, John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.