[51002] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Echo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Sat Aug 17 18:03:32 2002
In-Reply-To: <20020817035517.C11271@mail.webmonster.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:38:21 +0200
To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>,
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@fugawi.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 3:55 AM +0200 2002/08/17, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
>> Also, how do you handle echoes of echoes? For example, if I
>> forged e-mail as being from echo@psi.net and addressed that to
>> echo@rohrbach.de (or whatever), would this generate an endless loop?
>
> X-Loop:
Hmm. If they send back the entire message as a forward (which
would be reasonable), do you scan for this header in the body (i.e.,
in the forwarded part), or just in the headers of the message that
you are receiving?
Thanks again!
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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