Hi Folks
Over the weekend some fairly disreputable types in the US sent a whole pile of spam out with fake From: lines which resolved to a server I administer in Wellington. Since the hostname in question (city.wellington.net.nz) has no users and doesn't actually receive any legit email, my first response was to MX it to a spare IP# on our network so that I didn't have to deal with the many (~100K) bounce messages. Upon further reflection, in occured to me that an even better technique for avoiding traffic bills would be to MX city.wellington.net.nz to 127.0.0.1, which I did, and all my spam problems have gone away :-). My question - is this a dodgy thing to do, have I missed some critical reason why I shouldn't do this?
Cheers Si
Looks cool to me - there is the question of who else it's impacting by turning the MX record that way. But on the whole it looks like a good plan. Dean (flames to /dev/null) --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog