[51397] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin)
Mon Aug 26 22:10:49 2002
From: Martin <marty@supine.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:14:46 +1000
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020826195814.26f3b48e.jtk@depaul.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
$author = "John Kristoff" ;
>
> I'm not sure how to truly disable an SMTP server from running on an end
> host. You can block or force forward port 25, but that is just a
> number. Be prepared to start doing that for all ports, then protocols,
> then IP addresses, then protocols again.
but surely an MTA derives it's usefulness by running on port 25. i don't
remember reading about where in the DNS MX RR you could specify what port
the MTA would be listening on...
marty
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