[40151] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers everywhere (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Radabaugh - Amplex)
Thu Aug 2 17:18:18 2001
From: "Mark Radabaugh - Amplex" <mark@amplex.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 17:17:57 -0400
Message-ID: <GCEEKJFMELAOEDFALPMNOEFACEAA.mark@amplex.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108021632310.25761-100000@amethyst.nstc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I think MAPS managed to DOS themselves. Since they are refusing queries
BIND can't cache the response and so it just keeps trying with every new
e-mail. The traffic hitting MAPS servers has to be impressive.
Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
(419) 833-3635
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Steven J. Sobol
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 4:33 PM
To: Larry Sheldon
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers
everywhere (fwd)
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>
> > It is interesting to see some of the sites that not only use(d) the
MAPS
> > lists for free, but didn't even bother to do the zone transfer mode
> > (which reduces the load on the MAPS servers and speeds up your local
> > use).
>
> At least one of us thinks the zone transfer mode was not free
It was, until just recently.
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