On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:52:30AM -0700, Aaron S. Joyner wrote: > >> > Rather than a joke it's just an unfortunate state of affairs. It's bad > for anyone on the internet proper who tries to send them email, because > it'll get stuck in their mail queue for as long as 5 days before giving > up, and it's bad for them because they may not even realize it (after > all, internal email works, right?). On the flip side, they may not > intend to have that information published on the internet. Ie. that > they probably have a not-so-well-configured server at an internal > address 10.0.0.2, which if their dns setup is any indication, you might > be able to slide through their NAT firewall and get access to > surreptitiously.
Thank you, Aaron. Once again Aaron has helped increase our knowledge. I was under the mistaken impression that current network hardware would not pass any RFC-1918 addresses, and therefore, commenting on an apparently bone-headed DNS entry that I had found in my mail logs was not actually a BAD thing. Sorry, Brian -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
