RR type SPF *is* the recommended way. SPF RR was ratified some time ago, any modern resolver knows about it. If you are using an outdated resolver system that spits errors on that, that's hardly any ones fault but your own.
However the suggested method at present is to run the TXT as well, because a lot of admins are too lazy to get with the times On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 15:37 -0400, Situ, Kevin wrote: > The type is TXT, not SPF > > > > Best Regards > > Kevin Situ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org > [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Martin McCormick > Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:04 PM > To: bind-us...@isc.org > Subject: SPF record Syntax > > I found a couple of great articles that explain SPF records but > not quite far enough. I am in a syntax war with nsupdate as the > examples appear to show everything but how the actual record > looks. > > They appear to be like many other RR's so I tried > > update add posse.okstate.edu. 10 IN SPF "v=spf1 ip4:209.235.101.208/29 > -all" > > and I get > > 'SPF' is not a valid type: unknown class/type > > Let's take out the TTL. > > As expected: > > ttl 'IN': not a valid number > > We are running bind9.5.1 and I did check to make sure > that nsupdate is the right one for this version of bind. It is > as it was installed the day I installed bind95 so it should > understand SPF. Obviously, I have the wrong syntax. > > I've already gotten one "Are we their yet?" today so I need to > find out what I am doing/not doing to get this SPF record > in place. > > I did put a .TXT record in as this is a suggested > procedure to handle resolvers that don't do SPF yet. > > Thanks for any help. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
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