SPF in a seperate zone

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Dec 16 09:38:22 UTC 2005


On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:22:10AM +0300,
 Hisham Al Saad <hisham.alsaad at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 11 lines which said:

> We provide DNS pointing service and one of our clients who has his
> own mail domain requests and insists to have an SPF entry for his
> domain in an independant zone not under the main zone.  Does this
> seems to be a valid request ?

No. The SPF record for example.org *must* be directly in the domain
example.org.

May be he wants a redirection?

You can set up a SPF record whose content is:

v=spf1 include:otherdomain.example ~all

or:

v=spf1 redirect:otherdomain.example ~all



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