Re: SPF test suite

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Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Julian Mehnle wrote:
> > What DNS zone are you talking about?
>
> The records referenced in Wayne's test suite.  (Some of which are
> supposed to return NXDOMAIN.)

Oh, now I see it.  That would be "spf1-test.mailzone.com.", which is the 
same one the Mail::SPF::Query tests are using.

> I see you're campaigning to start from scratch, in which case we skip
> that.

No, extracting those records from DNS should be done in any case.  About
"starting from scratch", that's just my opinion, and it doesn't mean we 
couldn't make use of the old records.  I guess what I'm really advocating 
is not to adopt any of the old records without thorough review regarding 
correctness and necessity.  I don't care whether or not we call that
"starting from scratch". ;-)

> > 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?

I don't think so.  "foo.zone" and "bar.zone" are in the same zone, yet one 
might have an A record whereas the other yields NXDOMAIN.  Am I overlook- 
ing something?

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

Agreed.

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