Re: Mail-Transmitter RR

[Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>]

On Sat, 01 Jun 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:
>    2.1. Domain owners who wish their mail source/return information to be
>    repudiable will enter stylized MX RR's into their DNS data, whose owner
>    name is "MAIL-FROM", whose priority is zero, and whose servername
>    registers an outbound (border) relay for the domain.  For example, to
>    tell the rest of the Internet who they should believe when they receive
>    mail claiming to be from VIXIE@ISC.ORG, the following DNS MX RR's should
>    be entered:
> 
>       $ORIGIN isc.org.
>       MAIL-FROM MX 0 rc
>                 MX 0 rc1

I think that the magic label should begin with an underscore
(e.g. "_MAIL-FROM"), for the same reasons that we use "_tcp" rather than
just "tcp" as a label for SRV records.

--apb (Alan Barrett)

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