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Re: Is malicious asymmetrical routing still a thing?


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 16:29:11 -0500

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 4:19 PM Christopher Munz-Michielin
<christopher () ve7alb ca> wrote:

Not this exact scenario, but what we see a lot of in my VPS company is
people sending spam by using our VPS' source addresses, but routing
outbound via some kind of tunnel to a VPN provider or similar in order
to bypass our port 25 blocks.

We've had to start blocking source port 25 to catch the replies from the
recipient mail servers in order to prevent this kind of abuse.

commodity 'ip access' really is all the same (dial, dsl, cable, vpc) to folk
that do this sort of thing :(


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