[30699] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Now the idiots at ORBS are probing random dial-ups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Fri Aug 25 11:20:39 2000
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:18:07 -0400
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20000825143118.5779D98@proven.weird.com>; from woods@weird.com on Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:31:18AM -0400
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:31:18AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>=20
> Unless static IP space is delegated directly to a customer then there's
> no reason to believe that any mail server running in that space is
> legitimate. SMTP just does not play with dynamic IPs, especially if you
> don't have reliable, secure, dynamic DNS updates on both the forward and
> reverse!
Greg, as usual, you just plain don't know what the hell you're talking abou=
t.
SMTP works just fine with dynamic IPs, *IF* both ends are following the rel=
evant
RFCs.
You don't follow them, so shit doesn't work for you. That's your choice, a=
nd
it's yours to make; but stop pontificating that the rest of the world should
follow it, and that it's the technically sound choice.
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