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Re: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder
From: "Damian Gerow" <damian () sentex net>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:31:56 -0400
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Pamela Patterson wrote:
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
People /are/ very upset. Even though they have implemented a rejecting mail server. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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