Break the loop in the SPF includes on Cloudflare
Why it matters
Two SPF records include each other, which uses up the lookup limit and makes SPF fail for the domain. It usually comes from including your own domain, or two domains pointing at each other.
The fix
- In the Cloudflare dashboard open DNS > Records, find the TXT records involved (one per domain in the chain), remove the include that closes the loop, and save.
Related
- Reported by the SPF record check
- Publish an SPF record
- Merge the SPF records into one
- Fix the syntax error in the SPF record
- Replace +all in the SPF record with ~all
- Narrow the very large address range in the SPF record
- Change ?all in the SPF record to ~all
- Choose the right SPF ending for this domain
- End the SPF record with ~all or -all
- Bring the SPF record under 10 DNS lookups
- Leave room under the SPF lookup limit
- Remove SPF terms that point at names that no longer exist
- Fix the SPF include that has no SPF record
- Replace the include that has several SPF records
- Replace the ptr mechanism in the SPF record
- Check the SPF terms that use macros
- Re-run the scan if part of the SPF record could not be read
Scan your domain to see whether this applies to you.