Re: Re: domain literals

"Stuart D. Gathman" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spf.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Scott Kitterman wrote:

>  4.3. Initial Processing
> 
> If the <domain> is malformed (label longer than 63 characters, zero-length 
> label not at the end, etc.) or is not a fully qualified domain name, or if 
> the DNS lookup returns "domain does not exist" (RCODE 3), check_host() 
> immediately returns the result "None".
> 
> So the correct SPF result for the IP literal is NONE.  I believe it's the same 
> for your museum cases too.  If the test suite doesn't cover this, it should 
> IMO.

The test suite covers the cases listed in the RFC (long label, empty label,
OEMCOMPUTER, RCODE 3).  It does not check domain literals in particular,
so I'll add that.  Although it is a pretty wierd programmer that would
return None for "foo..bar" and throw permerror for "[1.2.3.4]".

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