[13397] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: tcsender email bombing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Nov 5 00:56:47 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 00:48:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net>
cc: Dennis Simpson <dennis@bconnex.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971104212507.18912@denver.net>
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, John-David Childs wrote:
> You may want to change your 451 errors into 571 errors at least for this
> particular domain. From RFC1893:
Yep...changing those transient error codes into permenant ones will
severely discourage compliant MTA's.
I got a few dozen attempts from this one...but not enough that I'd have
noticed it over the other hundreds.
Nov 4 05:34:55 yoda sendmail[18159]: Ruleset check_mail
(<tcsender@get-more-hits.com>) rejection: 518
<tcsender@get-more-hits.com>... unresolvable host name, check your
configuration.
Nov 4 05:34:55 yoda sendmail[18159]: FAA18159:
from=<tcsender@get-more-hits.com>, size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0,
proto=ESMTP, relay=root@linked.net [209.24.1.201]
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