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Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:21:04 +0100
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:59:43AM -0500, Steven Champeon <schampeo () hesketh com> wrote a message of 98 lines which said:
1) any legitimate mail source MUST have valid, functioning, non-generic rDNS indicating that it is a mail server or source. (Most do, many do not. There is NO reason why not.)
Since this list is NANOG, it is reasonable that it has a North American bias but remember the Internet is worldwide. I do not know how it is in the USA but there are many parts of the world where ISP do not have a delegation of in-addr.arpa and therefore cannot pass it to their customers. (It is also common to have many levels of ISP, so you need to go through many layers before reaching the RIR.) Requesting rDNS means "I don't want to receive email from Africa".
Current thread:
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article], (continued)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Mark Andrews (Jan 24)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Markus Stumpf (Jan 25)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Mark Andrews (Jan 25)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Markus Stumpf (Jan 25)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Mark Andrews (Jan 25)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Markus Stumpf (Jan 25)
- RE: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet) Joseph Johnson (Jan 13)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet) william(at)elan.net (Jan 12)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet) Steven Champeon (Jan 13)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jan 13)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jan 13)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 13)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "an Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jan 13)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "an Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Jan 13)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "an Barry Shein (Jan 13)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym Owen DeLong (Jan 13)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 13)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym Steven Champeon (Jan 13)
- Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jan 13)
- /24 route propagation, how long is reasonable? Michael Airhart (Jan 13)
- Re: /24 route propagation, how long is reasonable? bmanning (Jan 13)