[122787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spamhaus...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Sun Feb 21 13:02:41 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100221141043.GA13708@gsp.org>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:01:36 -0500
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
> Hint: nothing stops the spammers from pointing the MX records for their
> throwaway domains at somebody else's mail servers. =A0Among other things.
> MANY other things, unfortunately.
Rich,
Clearly I shouldn't respond to any packets at all. After all, a bad
actor can originate packets with a forged source address and I
wouldn't want to abuse your network with unwanted echo-replies,
syn-acks and rejs.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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