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btw, you could notinstallk 223.255.255.* network on the some routers (cisco for example), 223.255.254.* only. On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Brandon Ross wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 02:05:50 -0500 (EST) > From: Brandon Ross <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: 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. > > > Aleksei Roudnev, (+1 415) 585-3489 /San Francisco CA/
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