On 12/08/2010 03:34 PM, Chris Owen wrote:
he other thing we see that always amazes me is that if we have MXs that are all
the same weight, the ones that have the lowest reverse DNS host name get hit
higher.
I really have no idea how much less why this happens. It is sort of
frustrating though as it leads to load imbalances.
Could this functionality of the spam bot be due to the algorithm using a
dictionary type of data set manipulation where they gather the data, and
then alphabetize the names and start hitting them first?
That is the first think that comes to mind when I see the two responses
above. (Just coming from a programmatic approach to the assumptions of
the functionality of such mechanisms.)
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Respectfully,
Martes G Wigglesworth
M. G. Wigglesworth Holdings, LLC
www.mgwigglesworth.net
