[SpamCop-List] Re: empty spam...

[Jeff G.]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message
news:dmkna7$lkc$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> jg wrote:
> > and came up with (via Sam Spade):
>
> > How do 3 bogus rDNS entries pop up and is this the result of spammy?
> > academic question...
>
> I think but I'm not sure that in this context 'bogus' simply means
that
> 'paranoid' lookup doesn't work.
>
> That is, if an IP will rDNS but the rDNS doesn't DNS to the original
IP
> that the report sez 'bogus' -- which seems like an unkind term for
that
> particular behavior.

'violates Section "INSTRUCTIONS - Adding a host - Add the reverse
IN-ADDR entry" of RFC1033 "DOMAIN ADMINISTRATORS OPERATIONS GUIDE" at
http://tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcmarkup/rfcmarkup.cgi?rfc=1033#page-11 '
would be a little long for such a purpose, don't you think?  I think
"bogus" fits because the rdns names (the right sides of the PTR Records)
are in fact "not genuine" because tbr1-p014001.la2ca.ip.att.net,
tbr1-cl3.sffca.ip.att.net, and tbr1-cb10.st6wa.ip.att.net
authoritatively don't exist, and I blame rm-hostmaster[at]ems.att.com
(the person responsible for the zones in all three parent SOA records)
for the whole mess.

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