[Mimedefang] validating 'possibly forged' helo IP's?
WBrown at e1b.org
WBrown at e1b.org
Thu Jan 12 14:32:23 EST 2006
> Try adding 150 PTR records for a given IP address and watch all hell
> break loose. :-)
>
> (The large reply will make the DNS server want to fall back to TCP,
> which is blocked by a lot of firewalls whose admins forget (if they
> ever knew) that DNS can run over TCP as well as UDP.)
Wearing the DNS hat as well as mail, I made damn sure that the firewalls
allowed 53 TCP and UDP. I would think that if they are blocking TCP, they
would have been seeing some odd behavior already.
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