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Re: DDoS attacks via SPF

2003-12-18 10:52:55

On Dec 18, 2003, at 9:02 AM, wayne wrote:

In <3FE1C7BD(_dot_)9040204(_at_)foster(_dot_)cc> Mark Foster 
<mark(_at_)foster(_dot_)cc> writes:

Wouldn't doing away with the macro-char t (also) greatly reduce the
ddos risk?
What is t needed for, anyway?

Agreed.  If I understand things correctly, the %t macro is only going
to be useful for DNS logging/tracking, but the timestamps in the logs
are going to be just as accurate.

It could be useful if you intentionally don't want lookups to be cached.


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