[25068] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IMRSS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Thu Sep 9 11:28:56 1999
To: Daniel.MacKay@Dal.Ca
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:37:09 -0300"
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 17:26:46 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> The IMRSS open-mail-relay-protection service has listed one of my machines,
> 129.173.1.10, as an open mail relay, I dunno why, coz it ain't. Several
> regular mail peers have called me about this.
Most likely it's listed because it relays for other, open hosts.
> Is anyone running this thing? or is it an unattended dinosaur causing more
> problems than it solves?
Well, IMRSS also lists the following:
129.173.1.56
129.173.1.67
129.173.1.83
129.173.1.88
which *are* indeed open relays. So even if 129.173.1.10 is closed, you
still have several other open relays on your network.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
