Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2012 schrieb Peter Hessler :

> Not sure where you got "greyscanner" from, but you should probably ask
> the authors.
>
>
It's from a guy called Bob.

http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/nycbug06/scripts/greyscanner


>
> On 2012 Dec 26 (Wed) at 21:31:26 +0100 (+0100), Jan Stary wrote:
> :This is spamd and greyscanner on current/macppc.
> :Generally, it works very well for me.
> :
> :Recently, I see greyscanner trapping hosts that try to
> :"mail from sender with no MX or A", such as
> :
> :Dec 26 17:21:13 www greyscanner[31861]: Trapped 87.219.109.249:
> :Mailed from sender bernina.co.il with no MX or A
> :
> :That's a spammer alright, a typical mail from there looks like
> :(GREY) 87.219.109.249: <surchargeg...@bernina.co.il <javascript:;>> -> <
> xyfstare...@stare.cz <javascript:;>>
> :However, there _is_ a MX and A record for bernina.co.il:
> :
> :$ host -t a bernina.co.il
> :bernina.co.il has address 62.90.102.9
> :$ host -t mx bernina.co.il
> :bernina.co.il mail is handled by 20 mx5.adcd.co.il.
> :bernina.co.il mail is handled by 10 mx4.adcd.co.il.
> :
> :So there is something wrong. Same way, gmail.com got trapped:
> :
> :Dec 26 20:54:32 www greyscanner[12163]: Trapped  209.85.215.177: Mailed
> :from sender gmail.com with no MX or A
> :
> :Needless to say, there are MX and A records for gmail.com
> :(and there must have been at Dec 26 20:54:32 too).
> :
> :What could be causing this? DNS resolving works fine on this machine.
> :Could it be that for some reason, greyscanner failed to resolve
> :at that precise moment? Can the "$DNS_SOCK_MAX = 50;" setting
> :have something to do with it?
> :
> :Is anyone else seeing this?
> :
> :       Jan
> :
>
> --
> In Corning, Iowa, it's a misdemeanor for a man to ask his wife to ride
> in any motor vehicle.

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