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Re: MTS transparency and anonymity

2005-02-27 10:14:23


among them are: anonymous(_at_)[0(_dot_)0(_dot_)0(_dot_)0], anonymous(_at_)[127(_dot_)0(_dot_)0(_dot_)1], anonymous(_at_)[127(_dot_)255(_dot_)255(_dot_)255], anonymous(_at_)[::0], and anonymous(_at_)[::1].

(Don't these have mostly the same DNS problems as blah(_at_)blah(_dot_)invalid?)

they shouldn't. any MTA that tries to do a DNS lookup of a domain literal is seriously broken.

(and at least at one time there was a popular MTA that would look up the PTR record for the IP address, get a domain name, and try to substitute that domain name - which is completely ridiculous. the whole point of using a domain literal is to connect directly to the SMTP server at that address.)