Re: dissapointed dummy MX record

2005-05-26 Thread Tim Jackson
On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:13:45 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff wrote: On Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 6:56:08 AM, Ronan McGlue wrote: I added a dummy mx record (lowest preference) as we all know its generally the one th spammers target first, which is getting hit with about 50% of our daily

Re: dissapointed dummy MX record

2005-05-26 Thread Ronan McGlue
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added a dummy mx record (lowest preference) as we all know its generally the one th spammers target first, which is getting hit with about 50% of our daily connections, of which i defer all of them at a very low overhead. May I ask what kind of

Re: dissapointed dummy MX record

2005-05-25 Thread lists
I added a dummy mx record (lowest preference) as we all know its generally the one th spammers target first, which is getting hit with about 50% of our daily connections, of which i defer all of them at a very low overhead. May I ask what kind of software/settings do you use to defer the

Re: dissapointed dummy MX record

2005-05-25 Thread lists
On Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 6:56:08 AM, Ronan McGlue wrote: I added a dummy mx record (lowest preference) as we all know its generally the one th spammers target first, which is getting hit with about 50% of our daily connections, of which i defer all of them at a very low overhead. Some of

Re: dissapointed dummy MX record

2005-05-25 Thread evan
Do you have any links to linux based fake proxypots ? They sound cool, or maybe its just fun to say... Look for implementations of Teergrube on google. A famous one which shut down awhile back is LaBrea - which uses similar technology for catching worms. There is a Linux netfilter plugin

Re: dissapointed dummy MX record

2005-05-25 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 5:43:41 PM, evan wrote: Also look at honeyd.org for how honeypots are catching spammers. Spamhaus uses a similar scheme where unknown and unused domains sit on servers across the world. Any mail the server gets is obviously spam since no one should be sending an