[9764] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC 1918 addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew James Gering)
Sun Jun 1 01:24:20 1997
From: "Matthew James Gering" <mgering@ricochet.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 22:02:31 -0700
> Exposing an RFC 1918 private address in, say, a "Received:" header in
e-mail
> is less of a problem, though the spammers who do it are actually better
able
> to cover their origins, there's no way to prevent it and no normal damage
> from doing it.
Unless the SMTP server used to proxy email through a firewall is able to
strip headers, it's unavoidable.
I would like to see that feature added to SMTP servers, however, I do hate
letting internal host names and addresses out.
Matt
