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SPF record is large enough to be truncated

ATTENTION

SPF · Needs attention · costs 15 points · RFC 7208 section 3.4

What it means

At N bytes the response risks truncation on resolvers without EDNS0. A truncated answer means an incomplete record and inconsistent SPF results.

How to fix it

Shorten the record, drop unused mechanisms or flatten includes, to keep the response comfortably under 450 bytes.

Check your own domain

This page describes the condition. To find out whether your domain has it, run the SPF test or the full checkup, which examines every record at once.

Understand it properly

This page covers one condition. For the whole picture, What is SPF, and the ten-lookup limit, or start at the Health Library.

Where this comes from

We judge this against RFC 7208 section 3.4. Every finding on this site cites the specification behind it so you can check the work rather than take our word for it.

Other SPF conditions

SPF_UDP_TRUNCATION_RISK

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