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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > I'm going to make a pitch for the IP-address based method. > > Specifically, if you have a set of well known IP addresses for common > services, thus something like: > > 223.255.255.1 - Primary DNS > 223.255.255.2 - Secondary DNS > 223.255.255.3 - SMTP Mail > 223.255.255.4 - Time Server > > You could very easily support this in ANY network. No additional > HW/software required. Not quite, this would actually cause more problems for those of us who use wholesalers for our dialup services than it would solve. It's quite important to us for many reasons for our customers to use our SMTP servers, not our wholesaler's. If each AS directed all the traffic from these well known addresses to their 'best' SMTP server, we wouldn't be able to stop our customers from sending spam or control the quality of our SMTP services. Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664 Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. [email protected] ICQ: 2269442 Read RFC 2644! Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details.
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