Re: Problems with spf testsuite and dns specification

"Stuart D. Gathman" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spf.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Stefano Bagnara wrote:

> The specification should probably be changed so the permerror is only
> required if multiple SPF records are found and they are different or
> multiple TXT records are found and they are different. If 2 TXT or 2 SPF
> records are found and are identical then it is a matter of server and
> client implementations to decide wether to consolidate the 2 records
> into a single record or not, so the SPF specification should not suggest
> a behaviour depending on the dns client/server used to do the lookup.

So, you're saying that if I put this in my DNS:

foo	IN TXT "foobar"
	IN TXT "foobar"
	IN TXT "foobar"

That looking up TXT records for "foo" could return anywhere from 1
to 3 records?  

Nevertheless, the SPF spec says that when there are multiple TXT
records beginning with "v=spf1", then the correct result is PermError.  

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