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Why you should not use the SPF record type

Posted: 14 Sep 2014, 18:16
by Daniel
According to RFC 7208 from April 2014 RR types was not widely deployed in DNS servers and provisioning systems. As a result, developers of SPF found it easier and more practical to use the TXT RR type for SPF records.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7208#section-3.1

So you should only use TXT records as SPF record.

You can use the mutation tool of SoluteDNS to either remove the SRV records from your zones if a TXT SPF is already in place or change the record type to TXT if a TXT record wasn’t in place yet. Be careful as you do not want to remove both records.