Re: I need a reliable domain that publishes an SPF-type record for testing purposes

William Ahern <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:18:41 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spf.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:51:52AM +0100, Marcus Bointon wrote:
> I'm currently addressing this PHP bug
> (https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54821) which notes that PHP lacks support
> for the RFC4408 SPF DNS record type. As part of that I need to create a
> reliable test case that looks up a domain with an SPF-type record - I was
> a bit surprised to find that openspf.org does not, despite it being a best
> practice and listed in the FAQ on the site! The domain does have a TXT SPF
> (which is simply "v=spf1 -all", so I guess you don't send any mail from
> there). Can anyone either suggest an appropriate alternate domain for this
> usage (reliability being the main concern so as not to break tests), or
> add an SPF-type record to openspf.org?

freebsd.org has had one for a long while. IIRC, it's what I used to test my
asynchronous DNS and SPF resolver several years ago.