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Re: Wildcard DNS entry

2004-09-14 20:16:16
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:33:12PM -0400, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
| 
| Yeah, there are four classes of solutions, really.
| 
| 1) deprecate "implicit mx"
| 2) modify spec to allow searching up the tree, as Wayne has
|    proposed in the past
| 3) put an SPF record on each host
| 4) encourage the world to assume "a/24 mx/24 ptr -all" for
|    non-publishing domains
| 

oh, i just figured out one more class of solutions:

spammers will start to forge www.example.com

receivers will observe that www.example.com has no mx record

receivers will try to connect to port 25

receivers will observe that www.example.com is not an mta

this knowledge can be recorded in some sort of rfc-ignorant
type system or reputation ssytem or whatever.


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