If your SPF record causes too many DNS lookups, your email infrastructure is in danger. It poses a serious threat to your deliverability. Chances are your messages are being dropped in the spam folder as we speak. Or worse… We fully understand the frustration. You invested your valuable time and effort in compiling a complete and detailed SPF record, only to discover that it is causing a flood of DNS lookups. Fortunately, we have the remedy. We offer real SPF Flattening to alleviate your pain.
Our SPF Flattening Tool is a revolutionary feature of DMARC Manager and a disruptive development in the market in terms of performance, security, and management. Learn below why it is so unique and why more and more major companies are choosing to benefit from our groundbreaking technology.
What is SPF Flattening?
To get straight to the point: SPF Flattening is the ultimate solution for your ‘Too Many DNS Lookups’ problem. It is a process of compressing an SPF record into sets of IP addresses. Everything is essentially squeezed into an include. Our platform performs superior automatic flattening on your SPF record, instantly reducing your lookups to well under 10.
Use our SPF Checker below to find out if your SPF record exceeds the 10/10 DNS lookup.
However, there is a common concern with flattening SPF: it also eliminates things like includes from your SPF records. This normally means that you would have to detect and update any changes made by third-party senders yourself. To prevent this inconvenience, we have built in a feature that checks for changes every five minutes and then automatically applies them to your SPF record. So, you don’t have to do anything!
Improved Security
Competitors mostly achieve management of the security protocols by putting all domains of all customers in the same DNS zone. DMARC Advisor, on the other hand, saves your DNS email authentication settings in your business’s own unique DNS zone. We can even insert the DNS settings needed for email authentication in your DNS.
Why is that more secure? Well, think about it: if you had the choice between leaving your car in a public parking lot or having a private garage. Which would you pick? Exactly! You are exposed to more risk when everything is together in one place. And that’s why we give everyone their own DNS zone per protocol!
Maximum Control, Minimum Risk
We understand better than anyone that the smallest mistake can have disastrous consequences for your email flows. That’s why you want to minimise the chance of making these mistakes. Our platform introduces Changesets: an innovative system of separated responsibilities / double authentication when making changes. Instead of taking the full burden upon yourself, you can also choose to divide the rights among multiple people. Through this distributed control, it is possible to assign different roles to different people within the organisation.
Ultimately, only authorised personnel can either create, approve, or commit DNS changes, minimising the risk of unauthorised (or incorrect) alterations. Technically, it doesn’t matter how many people are involved. But in all honesty, the more the merrier! Essentially, double authentication is an extra layer of security to double-check your changes. Logically, this is most valuable when multiple people monitor the process and share responsibilities. That is how we guarantee maximum control with minimum risk.
Business Continuity with SPF Flattening
Our SPF Management helps to maintain business continuity. It stores and documents all email authentication settings per domain. All of your data is clearly presented on a single screen. This means that you no longer solely depend on the specialised knowledge of one employee.
Further, we know how much you guys love the technical specs of things. Under the hood, we have a few unique features. For example, we achieve maximum speed in DNS resolving by making maximum use of UDP and only using TCP when necessary. UDP is a lightweight protocol that requires a lot less bandwidth and CPU resources than TCP, making it lightning-fast!
In Conclusion
Making SPF manageable is often a major challenge for companies. Our cutting-edge SPF Manager with automatic flattening, is happy to take on this challenge. It improves security and performance while keeping it perfectly manageable.
Upgrade the control of your SPF records. Try our SPF flattener now!
