[62044] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What *are* they smoking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher X. Candreva)
Mon Sep 15 19:44:20 2003
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:35:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030915232424.GB671416@hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Chris Adams wrote:
> Someone has already brought up the idea on the BIND list of modifying
> BIND to recognize this response and converting it back to NXDOMAIN.
That would be me -- I posted to comp.protocols.dns.bind, not realizeing it
was a mailing list gateway.
This also blows away the whole idea of rejeting mail from non-existant
domains -- never mind all the bounces to these non-existant domains when the
spammers get ahold of them. Boy, I hope they have a good mail server
responding with the 550 on that IP !
At the least we need a way for MTA's to reject mail from domains that
resolve to this nonsense. Having bind put NXDOMAIN back would be a plus.
-Chris
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