Re: Re: Problems with spf testsuite and dns specification

Stefano Bagnara <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spf.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Can someone add this issue to the Errata page
(http://www.openspf.org/RFC_4408/Errata) or change the testsuite to not
check this?

I bet that most "compliant" SPF implementations currently use resolver
libraries that compact the results and in real use cases they probably
fail to recognize identical duplicate records: are these implementations
being tested against real dns servers or the resolution process is mocked?

How can I help to have a fast solution for the test suite? I'd like to
complete our jSPF library and make sure it is compliant and this issue
is critical.

Stefano

Julian Mehnle ha scritto:
> Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Julian Mehnle wrote:
>>> Stuart, do you see any reason why having such tests with multiple
>>> _identical_ -- as opposed to merely multiple, but differing -- SPF
>>> records is important?
>> *Especially* if there is logic invoked only upon duplicates, you want
>> to check for a correct result.  If the spec should not have an errata
>> for this, then the best resolution is probably to allow both results for
>> duplicate records.
> 
> No -- assuming this isn't something the SPF spec should care about, then 
> why is this something the test suite needs to check?  Doesn't it suffice 
> to check only the weaker case where multiple but differing records exist?  
> (After all, the case is not weaker from SPF's PoV, only from that of DNS.  
> But we aren't testing the correctness of DNS, just that of SPF.)  What 
> does checking the multiple-identical-records case give us that checking 
> the weaker case doesn't?
> 

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