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Date:      Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:44:51 +1000
From:      Fraser Tweedale <Fraser@mail.frase.id.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to check if spf record is set
Message-ID:  <20080602224449.GA2157@bacardi>
In-Reply-To: <D4D5213F90B75633F3F80FA6@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 04:34:47PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Tuesday, June 03, 2008 01:09:57 +0400 Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail=
=2Ecom>=20
> wrote:
>=20
> > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Pardon my lack of knowledge but how can one check if SPF record is
> >> correctly set using standard UNIX tools?
> >> dig? host?
> >>
> >> $ man dig |grep spf
> >> $ man host |grep spf
> >>
> >> yield nothing. Many thanks!
> >>
> >
> > SPF uses TXT record, so a simple `host -t txt yourdomain.com` should do=
 the
> > trick.
> >
> >
> > HTH,
> > Yuri
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>=20
> Or "#dig -t TXT domain.tld" will do the same thing.
>=20
> --=20
> Paul Schmehl
> As if it wasn't already obvious,
> my opinions are my own and not
> those of my employer.
>=20

You don't even need the -t flag.  `dig TXT host` will do the trick... and l=
et's not forget about the newer, dedicated SPF record type; to query that, =
use `dig SPF host`.

frase

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