[77701] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Thu Feb 3 09:37:24 2005
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:34:16 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OFA12414A3.CD3B33C0-ON80256F9D.00401306-80256F9D.00405A5B@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:42:55AM +0000, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> CNET reports
> http://news.com.com/Zombie+trick+expected+to+send+spam+sky-high/2100-7349_3-5560664.html?tag=cd.top
> that botnets are now routing their mail traffic through the local
> ISP's mail servers rather than trying their own port 25
> connections.
There is one mistatement in this article, though: the author says:
"This means the junk mail appears to come from the ISP [...]"
If it's coming from their servers (or their network), it IS coming
from the ISP, and they bear full responsibility for making it stop.
---Rsk
