[25933] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Tue Nov 23 21:57:09 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:23:10 -0500 (EST)
From: jlewis@lewis.org
To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com>
Cc: Kai Schlichting <kai@pac-rim.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
> In transition to a new mail server (with a new address), I installed a
> plug-gateway on the old server to redirect mail.
>
> Unfortunately, plugd hides the ip address of the sender, and since I trust
> my netblocks, all of the ip addresses on the old server became "spam relay
> entry points".
>
> It took the spammers 96 hours to find 3 of the addresses on that box and
I've done similar things with netcat from inetd, which makes it easy to
run through tcpd.
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