Re: [dns-operations] Why would an MTA issue an ANY query instead of an MX query?

2012-06-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Vernon Schryver: > Emergency patches against ANY to last for a day or two for lack of > other available tools can make good sense--for a day or so. But > spending any long term effort on ANY queries in this context is the > same "thinking" that brought us SPF as the final ultimate solution > to

Re: [dns-operations] Why would an MTA issue an ANY query instead of an MX query?

2012-06-23 Thread Vernon Schryver
> From: Florian Weimer > > Emergency patches against ANY to last for a day or two for lack of > > other available tools can make good sense--for a day or so. But > > spending any long term effort on ANY queries in this context is the > > same "thinking" that brought us SPF as the final ultimate

Re: [dns-operations] Why would an MTA issue an ANY query instead of an MX query?

2012-06-23 Thread Paul Vixie
On 2012-06-23 9:54 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > ... > Perhaps it's time to admit defeat, call our legislators, and suggest > that they mandate source address validation by service providers. it's been time and past time for that since the internet was first commercialized and privatized. not only

Re: [dns-operations] Why would an MTA issue an ANY query instead of an MX query?

2012-06-23 Thread Fred Morris
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Paul Vixie wrote: > it's been time and past time for that since the internet was first > commercialized and privatized. It's funny to me (in that odd sort of way, not "ha ha" except as dark humor) that this hard fact seems to trigger the reset button in most people's brains: