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Using CAA Records with Namecheap

19 points by aaronmdjones

by creatonez

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Okay, this is a nitpick, but:
> They also haven't correctly signed off the e-mail with --. No matter, this is hardly the first case of a company that can't correctly send e-mail these days. Note this is meant to be hyphen, hyphen, space, but I can't figure out how to get Markdown to not eat that last space.
I've been looking for a while, and I can't find a single plaintext email formatting guide that specifies exactly how to format a signature. Even RFC1855 doesn't cover this topic. How is anyone supposed to find this information? Anyone who cares so precisely about plaintext email formatting should publish a style guide, because obviously this information has been lost to time. No wonder nobody knows how to send an email, no one is interested in telling anyone how to.
> Also, DNS propagation is a myth.
Since when? Is this another hyper-specific nitpick? Ignoring TTLs is still a thing, and accidentally burning yourself by setting too high of a TTL is still a thing.

by tepmoc

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First time, eh? I remeber namecheap had problems 10 years ago when they upgraded interface and something was wrong with dns srv records. So i had to move out to gandi at time

by stop50

1 subcomments

I always manage my dns via own servers(currently using Powerdns). these webuis always miss recordtypes or try to parse them before giving it to tge dns servers.

by aaronmdjones

1 subcomments

I've been wanting to make a blog for a while now. This incident is as good a source of material as any.

by n0ot

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I was working on a CAA implementation and wanted to use one of my domains (at Namecheap) to test. This was around 5 years ago. I had the same frustrating experience with support. I understand front line support personelle might not know what the heck an RFC is, but you'd think this would be a case when escalating to the next level would be warranted. I felt like they weren't even reading half of my message. I switched to different nameservers, and that worked fine in my case. I did eventually move over to Porkbun, but not for that reason.

by popcalc

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Plugging Infomaniak, the rare large registrar that has competent customer support.