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Re: Redirecting mail (Re: Throttling mail)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Thu Mar 25 16:30:35 2004

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:29:54 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200403251941.i2PJfHjP003209@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On 03/25/04, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: 

> On the other hand, it's probably more effective to find some way of making the
> Cisco gear block outbound 25 from abusive machines.  

	Inbound also.  The spammers have been using triangular routing
	for a while.

	(They dial in someplace, get an IP, and use a broadband connection 
	to send packets with a forged source address of that dialup IP.)

-- 
J.D. Falk                                     "be crazy dumbsaint of the mind"
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org>                               -- Jack Kerouac

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