SPF and DMARC records for centurylink.net

Live SPF and DMARC lookup for centurylink.net: the raw TXT records and the policy they enforce.

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Accepts mail
mail hosts
mx.centurylink.net
provider
other
spf record
v=spf1 mx ip4:63.226.138.11 ip4:63.226.138.12 ip4:74.201.140.86 ip4:200.57.160.146/29 ip4:209.67.128.0/23 ip4:74.202.142.0/24 ip4:216.163.188.0/24 ip4:148.235.52.0/26 ip4:187.191.73.0/24 ip4:200.57.141.0/24 ip4:69.49.113.0/24 ip4:74.116.88.0/22 ip4:216.55.172.0/24 ip4:155.70.50.76 include:mail.zendesk.com include:relay.mailchannels.net -all
dmarc policy
reject
dmarc record
v=DMARC1; p=reject; fo=1; rua=mailto:[email protected]; ruf=mailto:[email protected]
disposable domain
no
free consumer provider
yes

SPF for centurylink.net

centurylink.net publishes an SPF record; it authorises 2 included sender lists, and the record ends in -all (hard fail): mail from a server that is not listed should be rejected.

DMARC for centurylink.net

The DMARC policy for centurylink.net is p=reject: mail that fails SPF and DKIM alignment is refused outright. It is the strictest setting and the one Gmail and Yahoo now expect from bulk senders.

Why it matters

SPF says which servers may send as centurylink.net; DKIM signs the messages; DMARC tells receivers what to do when neither checks out and reports back to the owner. Together they decide whether mail from centurylink.net is trusted, and whether someone else can pretend to be centurylink.net. For verification they are a domain-quality signal: Spaw folds a missing SPF record into the risk score and reports has_spf and dmarc_policy on every email and domain lookup.

More checks for centurylink.net

checked 2026-09-03 · sources: live-dns 2026-09-03 · disposable-domains 2026-09-02 · free-provider-domains 2026-09-02 · mx-provider-patterns 2026-09-03

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