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Lookup Process
The query service is implemented as a simple DNS service. In order to support evaluation of different alternatives, the service provides both TXT and A record based queries. The query process has three steps:
- Identify the longest PSD by removing one label from the organizational domain (i.e. com for example.com)
- Append psddmarc.org to the end of the longest PSD (i.e. com.psddmarc.org for the example above)
- Perform a DNS query for type A or TXT for that name
If any result other than nxdomain, a DNS error (temporary or permanent), or status: NOERROR and ANSWER: 0 is returned, then the PSD may be a PSD DMARC participant and recievers that participate in PSD DMARC may (for testing purposes only) wish to query for a PSD DMARC record for that longest PSD.
Note: The only time NOERROR and ANSWER: 0 should be returned is for queries that are not for the longest PSD (e.g for 'uk' instead of '.gov.uk'). Properly formed queries will return nxdomaon for non-PSD DMARC domains.