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Re: What *are* they smoking?

  • From: Patrick W. Gilmore
  • Date: Mon Sep 15 19:40:54 2003 
-- On Tuesday, September 16, 2003 00:56 +0200
-- Niels Bakker <[email protected]> supposedly wrote:


A wildcard A record in the net TLD.

$ host does.really-not-exist.net
does.really-not-exist.net has address 64.94.110.11

$ host 64.94.110.11
11.110.94.64.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer sitefinder-idn.verisign.com

It even responds on port 25 (says 550 on every RCPT TO).  Gah.
No, it accepts if the from domain exists - but only if it *REALLY* exists.

[...]
rcpt to: [email protected]
250 OK
mail from: [email protected]
550 User domain does not exist.
mail from: [email protected]
250 OK

Nice that their spam filters still work. :(

And I love the 221 close message:

data
221 snubby1-wcwest Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission channel
Connection closed by foreign host.

--
TTFN,
patrick