Re: [tlug] Verislime

[Sam Tilders <sam@example.com>]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:27, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Have any mail admins out there noticed a direct knock-on effect of
> Verislime's latest prank (adding wildcards to the .com and .net GTLD
> nameservers)?
>
> Obviously, one can no longer reject mail based on a non-existant FROM
> address in the SMTP envelope because all domains now exist from a DNS point
> of view.

And just to see how absurd they are being...  check the 550 response their 
smtp host gives.

$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -v blah@example.com
From: blah@example.com
To: blah@example.com
Subject: blah@example.com

blah@example.com
.
blah@example.com Connecting to asdsadasdasdsa.com. via esmtp...
220 snubby2-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready
>>> EHLO ozonline.com.au
250 OK
>>> MAIL From:<sam@example.com>
250 OK
>>> RCPT To:<blah@example.com>
550 User domain does not exist.
>>> RSET
250 OK
Closing connection to asdsadasdasdsa.com.
>>> QUIT
221 snubby2-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission 
channel




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sam@example.com

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