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Re: [Asrg] whitelisting server and not users

2003-04-02 14:07:15
At 3:00 PM -0600 4/2/03, Steven F Siirila wrote:
It "breaks" it no more than adding just the TXT record itself in that both must
be configured by the DNS administrator in order to pass the "good MTA" test.

Sorry, I misread the proposal. I thought it was finding the authenticating domain by looking at envelope. Not from reverse looking up the IP address. In that case you're right--they both break too many systems. :-)

Too many ISPs don't provide reverse DNS to their customers, but do allow mail servers. And many of those that do provide reverse DNS, reverse it to their own domain, not the sender's domain.

envelope -> domain -> lookup ip at domain

I think can work.  Straight reverse IP lookups are harder.
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Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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