Re: Adding CNAME for the root domain issue

2016-04-27 Thread John R. Levine
Assuming you mean this (notice the dots): Domain.com. CNAME x.y.com. www CNAME x.y.com. No, this does not work. You're forgetting what goes around the example records: domain.com. IN SOA ... domain.com IN CNAME x.y.com. domain.com IN NS ... www.domain.com. IN CNAME x.y.com. Oh, rig

Re: Adding CNAME for the root domain issue

2016-04-27 Thread John R. Levine
At the same time, the browser developers, almost without exception, refuse to implement SRV because they don't like the idea that they might have to do another DNS lookup prior to displaying a web page. And they lobby the W3C pretty hard to not standardize SRV for HTTP. That's a pretty serious i

RE: Question about dynamic IPv6-PTR-Generation

2016-08-27 Thread John R. Levine
Just curious, is there a fundamental reason you have to oppose this beyond simply the scale? It's a cargo cult style extension of a not particularly useful IPv4 convention to IPv6. A much more useful convention that happens to be easier to implement is that hosts with static addresses have rD

Re: Proper Way to Configure a Domain which never sends emails

2019-08-20 Thread John R. Levine
The reject will only work when DKIM AND SPF are failing. So you have to setup SPF too. -all does the magic. Actually, no. DMARC only passes when DKIM or SPF passes. In the absence of any SPF, that's not a pass so DMARC will fail. It's a good idea to publish the SPF -all but in this case DMA