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Re: Ok: this is a targetted attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Mon Feb 11 18:20:02 2013
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:43 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <51196506.8010909@toaster.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 01:39:18PM -0800, Sean Lazar wrote:
> Jay, you need to have SPF records for your domain. This will prevent the
> spoofing you are seeing.
(a) SPF is just about entirely worthless and (b) if someone really has
it in for Jay and has at least minimal competence, it won't stop them --
minor variations in their tactics would suffice.
---rsk
