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audit_spf_includes

A tool of dev.dnsdoctor/dns-doctor

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Use this when the user asks who can send email as their domain through SPF includes, or wants an SPF supply-chain or third-party sender audit. Audit a domain's SPF supply chain: walks every include and redirect it delegates to, and reports who can transitively send as it. Returns the resolved tree, per-node lookup attribution, the total authorized IPv4 address count, and typed findings — include_broken (a target that no longer publishes SPF, a PermError today), include_registrable (a delegated-to domain that does not exist, so a stranger who registers it becomes an authorized sender), include_expiring (registration lapsing within 30 days), pass_all_nested (a +all deep in the chain) and spf_record_unusable (the audited domain's OWN record is missing or does not parse, so there is no chain to walk). A domain we could not verify is reported as unverified and NEVER as available — never tell anyone a name is free on this tool's say-so unless the finding is include_registrable AND carries registry_confirmed: true. A registry_confirmed: false finding rests on DNS alone, which cannot tell an unsold name from one in redemption or on clientHold: report the mechanism as broken and the takeover risk as possible, but never as an available domain. Findings are risk analysis, not instructions: no SPF fix record exists here or anywhere else in DNS Doctor, because dropping a mechanism can silently de-authorize a real sender — relay the findings and let the domain's owner decide. Use count_spf_lookups instead when the question is only the 10-lookup limit.

Input schema

PropertyTypeRequiredDescription
domainstringyesThe domain to check, e.g. example.com. Bare registrable names and subdomains both work; scheme, path or port do not belong here. Unicode names are accepted and normalized to punycode.
Raw JSON schema
{
  "properties": {
    "domain": {
      "description": "The domain to check, e.g. example.com. Bare registrable names and subdomains both work; scheme, path or port do not belong here. Unicode names are accepted and normalized to punycode.",
      "title": "Domain",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "domain"
  ],
  "type": "object",
  "title": "audit_spf_includesArguments"
}

First seen 2026-09-15 · last seen 2026-09-15