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Re: ISP signatures on outgoing mail
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} wrote:
> There is now meany patchers to avoid mail relaying like this. Good ISP's
> don't let mail to go from an outside site to anoughter outside site.
>
> > (identical to how the ISPs customers drop off mail)
>
> No its diffrent ISP's customers move from the inside to the outside.
Well, with current technology, it's not too difficult to forge DNS
entries, and I imagine you could forge enough entires to confuse a reverse
DNS lookup. But this is really a different issue and I think the most
recent version of Bind fixes some of these problems..
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