[61508] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Pinsky)
Fri Aug 29 13:56:30 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:55:03 -0700
From: Bruce Pinsky <bep@whack.org>
Reply-To: bep@whack.org
To: Omachonu Ogali <nanog@missnglnk.com>
Cc: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030829171343.GC9397@dipole.informationwave.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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Omachonu Ogali wrote:
|>trusted-mx.crocker.com uses DNSRTTL (Real Time Trust List) to only
|>accept connections from IPs it trusts.
|
|
| Hate to break up your envisionary experiences and insight into
| reinventing the wheel, but what happened to consideration of
| SMTP authentication?
It's only as good as the strength of your user community's passwords. A
friend of mine supports a school's servers and they were brute forced the
other day resulting in essentially an open relay for the spammers. Auth is
nice, but not enough.
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bep
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