Ah, so it does an MX lookup of the destination email address domain and
attempts a direct connection? I figured it would try to relay.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 10:29 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Nimda
You asked and answered your own question. It contains its own smtp
host. It uses the local machine's address book and default DNS server.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Posted At: Friday, September 21, 2001 10:17 AM
> Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List
> Conversation: Nimda
> Subject: RE: Nimda
>
>
> While we are on the subject, does anyone know how nimda finds
> an SMTP host
> for it's attempts to propagate itself SMTP? I've read all the
> reports I can
> find, all mention it's internal SMTP engine, but none tell
> how he finds an
> SMTP host to connect to.
>
>
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