On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:44 PM, John Hardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008, Aaron Wolfe wrote: > > If you just want IPs, maybe instead of running an SMTP service that 450s, > > you would want to use a packet filter like iptables instead. You could get > > the IPs simply by what packets you saw come in to port 25 and noone would > > have to worry you were stealing their mail. > > > > (1) Mark is trying to collect data on how the remote MTA behaves when > presented with a 451 tmpfail result. A firewall rule can't do that. > >From his message: "I'm not interested in the content of the message or anything other than catching the IP addresses of virus infected spam bots. That's all I want to do." > > (2) If someone doesn't trust him when he says "I won't accept or read your > mail", why will they trust him if he says "I have it firewalled off"? > Because you can very easily check for yourself to see that this is true. -Aaron > -- > John Hardin KA7OHZ > http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/<http://www.impsec.org/%7Ejhardin/> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] > key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Where We Want You To Go Today 07/05/07: Microsoft patents in-OS > adware architecture incorporating spyware, profiling, competitor > suppression and delivery confirmation (U.S. Patent #20070157227) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tomorrow: the 63rd anniversary of VE day >