[57857] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open relays and open proxies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Fri Apr 25 10:22:32 2003
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:21:28 -0400
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: Daniel Concepcion <dani@danielcp.net>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200304251431.57476.dani@danielcp.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Friday, April 25, 2003 2:31 PM +0200 Daniel Concepcion
<dani@danielcp.net> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I think that the end of the spam and open relays will be when the smtp
> servers talk only with servers with trust.
Amazingly, even though I am posting in this thread... it is *not* about
spam.
Don't be fooled by the mention of open relays. Open proxies are abused for
many purposes, of which spam is a minor one. I've seen open proxies in
recent DoS source addresses for example.
