[afnog] afnog.org TXT record

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:29:32PM -0400,
 Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote 
 a message of 12 lines which said:

> Perhaps a stupid question, but does the current afnog.org TXT record
> in DNS mean something?

It is quite common in DNS zone files, to add a marker whose presence
in the DNS replies will indicate that the zone file was loaded
successfully. (This is because there is no explicit end marker in BIND
zone files so a trauncated zone file would not be detected otherwise.)

The root uses the same trick.

%             dig +short VRSN-END-OF-ZONE-MARKER-DUMMY-RECORD.ROOT. TXT 
"plenus"
 
> Although its a bug in SPF software, which should ignore TXT records which 
> don't begin with the SPF flag (e.g. "v=spf1"),

Not "should", "MUST", it is an awful bug!