Man, they'll try anything to hack your system...

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:13:46PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
>   In the vein of "Strange things seen on the Internet", I'm noticing a
> few domains have MXes pointing to hosts with addresses in RFC-1918
> private IP address space.  I noticed this because our mail server was
> trying to send DSN bounce messages to the domains, and so was trying
> to connect to some hosts with bogon IP addresses.  Our firewall caught
> it and dropped it, and since it was from our server, it was
> highlighted in a log report.

Perhaps the domains use mail only internally? So I could set up mail for
crschmidt.net to point to a local mail host and only people at 'home'
could deliver to that address usefully?

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Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer