From: Matthew Crocker (no email)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 09:50:28 EST
On Jan 31, 2007, at 5:57 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> bear with me, this appears to be about DNS but it's actually about
> e-mail.
>
> maps.vix.com has been gone since 1999 or so. mail-abuse.org is the
> new thing.
> i've tried just about everything to get traffic toward the old
> domain name to
> stop... right now there's a DNAME but it made no real difference.
> i've taken
> the maps.vix.com domain away. i've set its NS to "localhost".
> i've put long
Instead of using localhost how about you set the NS record to
'baddns.vix.com' and have an A record pointing to some of your dead
IP space. That way the RBL client on the mail server will wait for a
while attempting to connect to a dead machine. This will create a
log jam at the inbound SMTP daemon, spinning off lots of processes,
hopefully jacking up the load on the box and tweaking somebody's
interested. Maybe even a tarpit type machine that can string the RBL
client along long enough to cause enough delay/processes on the
server to mean something. It is probably safe to assume if they are
still using the domain after 8 years they probably don't have
timeouts set for the RBL client lookups. Route the dead IP to a
bogus LAN so you don't ARP yourself to death.
-Matt
-- Matthew S. Crocker President Crocker Communications, Inc. Internet Division PO BOX 710 Greenfield, MA 01302-0710 http://www.crocker.com
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