Re: only check domain name, not hostname?

From: Murray S. Kucherawy <msk_at_blackops.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:18:44 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Micah Anderson wrote:
> The main one I'm puzzled by is the results I got from some of the
> auto-responder test addresses. I see that the dkim test is failing
> because they are looking for the DNS entry for
> _domainkey.hostname.example.com when I was expecting them to simply look
> for _domainkey.example.com. I can get around that by adding DNS TXT
> entries for the hostname (and its alias), but is there a configuration
> option I can set to request that remote sites don't check the hostname
> portion?

The query is based on the signing domain, which is the "d=" part of the
signature. So you need to arrange that the "d=" is example.com, not
hostname.example.com.

Can you attach your configuration file(s)?

-MSK
Received on Fri Oct 26 2012 - 20:19:00 PST