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

[jg]

On 12/3/2005 2:56 PM Jeff G. scribbled:

> "Norman Miller" <exfenestrate at spammers.invalid> wrote in message
> news:5z4zq6wg26l4.dlg at grc.aosake.net...
> 
>>On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 04:35:24 -0500, Jeff G. wrote:
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>>>"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
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> spammy?
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>>>>>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
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> original
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>>>>IP that the report sez 'bogus' -- which seems like an unkind term
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> for
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>>>>that particular behavior.
>>>
>>>'violates Section "INSTRUCTIONS - Adding a host - Add the reverse
>>>IN-ADDR entry" of RFC1033 "DOMAIN ADMINISTRATORS OPERATIONS GUIDE"
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> at
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>>>http://tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcmarkup/rfcmarkup.cgi?rfc=1033#page-11
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> '
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>>>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
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> Records)
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>>>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
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> rm-hostmaster[at]ems.att.com
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>>>(the person responsible for the zones in all three parent SOA
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> records)
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>>>for the whole mess.
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>>Does it have an adverse affect on routing packets? These are
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> intermediary
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>>routers, here, not end-point hosts. I should think that, as long as
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> the
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>>packets are being properly routed, there is no _serious_ problem.
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> 
> No, it does not "have an adverse affect on routing packets", but it does
> "have an adverse affect on troubleshooting of routing packets"
> 
Jeff, you need QuoteFix to go along with your doubtlook client - I got
cross eyed reading the orig of above post...
sorry...