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Re: ARIN whois


From: jlewis () lewis org
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:23:10 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Forrest W. Christian wrote:

In transition to a new mail server (with a new address), I installed a
plug-gateway on the old server to redirect mail.

Unfortunately, plugd hides the ip address of the sender, and since I trust
my netblocks, all of the ip addresses on the old server became "spam relay
entry points".

It took the spammers 96 hours to find 3 of the addresses on that box and

I've done similar things with netcat from inetd, which makes it easy to
run through tcpd.


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