[19924] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Neill)
Wed Sep 30 23:30:14 1998
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:39:54 -0400
From: Christopher Neill <chrisn@qual.net>
To: Alex Kamantauskas <alexk@tugger.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.03.9809301537330.414-100000@fz.appliedtheory.com>; from Alex Kamantauskas on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 03:40:15PM -0400
Yeah well, you probably have to *pay* for relaying. This is actualy of
some value to spammers since its relatively easy to shut down a relay;
I have actually seen spam advertising 'spam friendly' ISPs that offer
relaying services.
Gut 'em all, I say.
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 03:40:15PM -0400, Alex Kamantauskas wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Barry Shein wrote:
>
> >
> > In support of this assertion I want to show you an SMTP conversation
> > with what claims to be the Consulate of the Government of Tonga in San
> > Francisco (This San Francisco office is listed as an official Tongan
> > contact point for visas etc by the US State Dept):
> >
> > world% telnet sfconsulate.gov.to 25
> > Trying 209.24.51.169...
> > Connected to sfconsulate.gov.to.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 220 colo.to SMTP ready, Who are you gonna pretend to be today?
> > VRFY postmaster
> > 500 Bloody Amateur! Proper forging of mail requires recognizable SMTP commands!
> >
> > --------------------
>
> Well, beyond the cutesy error messages, at least relaying is turned off.
>
> fz(alexk):[~] telnet sfconsulate.gov.to 25
> Trying 209.24.51.169...
> Connected to sfconsulate.gov.to.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 colo.to SMTP ready, Who are you gonna pretend to be today?
> helo tugger.net
> 250 colo.to Is thrilled beyond bladder control to meet tugger.net
> mail from: alexk@tugger.net
> 250 sender is alexk@tugger.net, (yeah sure, it's probably forged)
> rcpt to: alexk@freetld.net
> 550 NOPE UNKNOWN(204.168.18.98), I don't allow unauthorized relaying.
>
>
> >
> > Viewing the web page for the Tongan Consulate in the US
> > (http://sfconsulate.gov.to) reveals nothing but an ad for a software
> > company, this page ends with:
> >
> > Need a domain name? Contact the Kingdom of Tonga Internet domain name
> > registry.
> >
> > --------------------
> >
> > Consequently, I assert there is no reason for this domain to exist and
> > it should be removed from the root name servers.
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Barry Shein
> >
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> Alex Kamantauskas
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