On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 12:30 -0700, Christopher Bort wrote: > For a while now, I've been seeing attempts to send mail to the > home server for addresses in $DAYJOB domains. This is not a > problem since the volume is low and they are being properly > rejected as third-party relay attempts (authentication required > - relay not permitted). However, the fact that someone is > apparently trying to send mail to an NS instead of an existing > MX has piqued my curiosity. It looks like it's all spam (the > sender addresses tend to support that).
Marc, this might be another way for you to collect your spam zombie data. Offer a free public secondary-DNS service and run your dummy MTA on that box. That way you're inherently rewarding (at least a little bit) the people who are cooperating to provide you data. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If Microsoft made hammers, everyone would whine about how poorly screws were designed and about how they are hard to hammer in, and wonder why it takes so long to paint a wall using the hammer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Today: the 39th anniversary of Man's first steps on the Moon
