[14452] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Attack of the Killer Spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Tue Dec 30 21:44:37 1997
X-Envelope-To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 21:41:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net>
To: Eric Osborne <osborne@notcom.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199712310117.UAA02783@micron.notcom.com>
> OTOH, if Earthlink (or whomever - Earthlink is just an example, here) points
> its customers towards something like mail.earthlink.net for SMTP relay, see
> below....
They run their own SMTP relays... some sort of round robin setup, servers
named after different countries of the world. So, the ball is in their
court, so to speak.
> Take a look at somebody like Xcom (hi, marty!) - www.xcom.net. I'm not
> affiliated with them in any way, but it looks like what they do may be useful.
> A Layer 2 approach means that you can assign only _your own_ IPs to dialin
> customers, which cuts out the aforementioned Radius cross-reference.
That's certainly an idea worth considering, if you are not distributed
accross a gazillion Ascend MAX TNT units (for UU anyways, duno what PSI
uses.. anyone?)...
But I digress...
-=Adam
