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Re: what the heck do i do now?
From: Matthew Crocker <matthew () crocker com>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:50:28 -0500
On Jan 31, 2007, at 5:57 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
bear with me, this appears to be about DNS but it's actually about e-mail.maps.vix.com has been gone since 1999 or so. mail-abuse.org is the new thing. i've tried just about everything to get traffic toward the old domain name to stop... right now there's a DNAME but it made no real difference. i've taken the maps.vix.com domain away. i've set its NS to "localhost". i've put long
Instead of using localhost how about you set the NS record to 'baddns.vix.com' and have an A record pointing to some of your dead IP space. That way the RBL client on the mail server will wait for a while attempting to connect to a dead machine. This will create a log jam at the inbound SMTP daemon, spinning off lots of processes, hopefully jacking up the load on the box and tweaking somebody's interested. Maybe even a tarpit type machine that can string the RBL client along long enough to cause enough delay/processes on the server to mean something. It is probably safe to assume if they are still using the domain after 8 years they probably don't have timeouts set for the RBL client lookups. Route the dead IP to a bogus LAN so you don't ARP yourself to death.
-Matt -- Matthew S. Crocker President Crocker Communications, Inc. Internet Division PO BOX 710 Greenfield, MA 01302-0710 http://www.crocker.com
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- Re: what the heck do i do now? Rich Kulawiec (Feb 01)
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- Re: what the heck do i do now? Barry Shein (Feb 01)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Matthew Crocker (Feb 01)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Scott Weeks (Feb 01)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law (Feb 01)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? bmanning (Feb 01)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Paul Vixie (Feb 01)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Tony Finch (Feb 01)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Paul Vixie (Feb 01)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Jon Lewis (Feb 01)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Jeremy Chadwick (Feb 05)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Jon Lewis (Feb 05)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Jeremy Chadwick (Feb 05)