[62042] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What *are* they smoking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Sep 15 19:39:33 2003
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:34:36 -0400
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030915225656.GM99725@snowcrash.tpb.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
-- On Tuesday, September 16, 2003 00:56 +0200
-- Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net> supposedly wrote:
> A wildcard A record in the net TLD.
>
> $ host does.really-not-exist.net
> does.really-not-exist.net has address 64.94.110.11
>
> $ host 64.94.110.11
> 11.110.94.64.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer sitefinder-idn.verisign.com
>
> It even responds on port 25 (says 550 on every RCPT TO). Gah.
No, it accepts if the from domain exists - but only if it *REALLY* exists.
[...]
rcpt to: fooo@baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar.net
250 OK
mail from: fooooo@baaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr.net
550 User domain does not exist.
mail from: patrick@ianai.net
250 OK
Nice that their spam filters still work. :(
And I love the 221 close message:
data
221 snubby1-wcwest Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission
channel
Connection closed by foreign host.
--
TTFN,
patrick
