X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/67794d2b830fc580f87b0635718d95e32b467be1..79e5ebf9e9bb833ce004be65c04b2f8eea91c337:/src/src/spf.c

diff --git a/src/src/spf.c b/src/src/spf.c
index 9b053ccf9..fd9831c43 100644
--- a/src/src/spf.c
+++ b/src/src/spf.c
@@ -72,6 +72,18 @@ int dns_rc;
 
 DEBUG(D_receive) debug_printf("SPF_dns_exim_lookup '%s'\n", domain);
 
+/* Shortcircuit SPF RR lookups by returning HOST_NOT_FOUND (shortest code path
+in libspf2).  They were obsoleted by RFC 6686/7208 years ago. see bug #1294
+*/
+
+if (rr_type == T_SPF)
+  {
+  HDEBUG(D_host_lookup) debug_printf("faking HOST_NOT_FOUND for SPF RR(99) lookup\n");
+  srr.herrno = HOST_NOT_FOUND;
+  SPF_dns_rr_dup(&spfrr, &srr);
+  return spfrr;
+  }
+
 switch (dns_rc = dns_lookup(dnsa, US domain, rr_type, NULL))
   {
   case DNS_SUCCEED:	srr.herrno = NETDB_SUCCESS;	break;