Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder

[Pamela Patterson <ppatters () cbnco com>]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 15:13, Richard M. Smith wrote:
<snip>
> I've attached an early email from Verisign that gives a bit more
> information about how this fake SMTP server operates but not why it is
> needed.

If they had no mail server there at all, mail sent to non-existent
domains would sit in limbo as the upstream machine tried to deliver it
to the Verisign machine.  How many times it would try and how long it
would wait would depend on the MTA configuration, but it could be days. 
If email sent to misspelled domains took 5 days (the sendmail default)
to bounce due to Verisign's domain squatting, people would be very upset

-- 
There are two kinds of sysadmins: paranoids and losers.
I'm both kinds.


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