Re: Re: SPF test suite - volunteers needed

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Julian Mehnle wrote:

> > 2) Write script to extract DNS records referenced by current suite to
> > text database.  It is a one-off script, so we don't care what language
> > you use - we just want the result.  It may need to run multiple times
> > and/or merge results to handle TEMP errors in the DNS servers holding
> > the data.
> 
> What DNS zone are you talking about?

The records referenced in Wayne's test suite.  (Some of which are supposed
to return NXDOMAIN.)  I see you're campaigning to start from scratch,
in which case we skip that.

> BTW, Shevek offered to provide a lot of test records in the "spftest.org." 
> zone (as well as delegating the zone to a name server of our choice in 
> case we want to host part of the test suite in DNS online).

That means putting all the test DNS records in a single zone.  Does
this preclude testing for some kinds of errors?

In any case, the the online copy should be identical to a specific 
released text form of the data.

> The "spf1-test.mailzone.com." zone used by the Mail::SPF::Query test 
> script[1] is far from comprehensive and in part outright archaic.

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