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Re: Spamhaus...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Champeon)
Fri Feb 19 17:05:18 2010
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From: Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com>
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on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:50:59AM -0800, Crist Clark wrote:
> Spamhaus does some good work, but being used as a pawn in
> some conflict between vendors doesn't feel nice. And I want to
> know how they figured out we had a Barracuda.
If it's connected to the 'Net and listening on port 25, it's rather
obvious in the SMTP banner. As far as I know, only Barracudas use the
parenthized 32-char hex in their banners.
220 ham.globalstar.com ESMTP (025830353ddfaf0a57c33778b8725ad9)
HTH,
Steve
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