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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: SMTP in distributed DOS
At 04:07 PM 2/20/00 -0500, [email protected] wrote: >Correct. But the person said we *should* bounce back to the originating IP >address, which is what's logged in the Received: header. My point was that >if we *did* what he suggested, *his* mail would quite possibly be broken >by taking the action. I've seen a number of mail packages (PP from the >ISODE comes to mind, but there's others) that refused to accept mail if >they couldn't verify at message submission time that they'd be able to send >back a bounce message. I'm not saying that's correct EITHER, just that >there's sites that do that. Sorry, guess I misread the original post. I thought he was just sending it to a random hostname in the received headers, not in the from field. Oh, well, just goes to show you cannot trust someone without enable! :) > Valdis Kletnieks TTFN, patrick -- I Am Not An Isp - www.ianai.net ISPF, The Forum for ISPs by ISPs, <http://www.ispf.com> "Think of it as evolution in action." - Niven & Pournelle (Enable? We dunt need no stinkin' enable!!)
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