Re: BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-30 Thread Andy Spiegl
John Rudd wrote: But even if I wanted a dynamic IP doesn't make much sense as MX. :-( > Part of the operating definition of "soho mail server" that I am using > for botnet is: if your operation is so small that you're forced to use a > dynamic IP address for your email server, then you're proba

Re: BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-30 Thread John Rudd
Andy Spiegl wrote: John Rudd wrote: b) spiegl.de has 1-5 MX records, and one of them has 1-5 A records, one of which resolves to the submitting relay (87.152.143.202). Hm, but why would I want to put this dynamic IP into the list of MXs? The soho mailserver doesn't accept mails from outside.

Re: BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-30 Thread Andy Spiegl
John Rudd wrote: > b) spiegl.de has 1-5 MX records, and one of them has 1-5 A records, one > of which resolves to the submitting relay (87.152.143.202). Hm, but why would I want to put this dynamic IP into the list of MXs? The soho mailserver doesn't accept mails from outside. Shouldn't the BOT

Re: BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-27 Thread John Rudd
Andy Spiegl wrote: John Rudd wrote: When you're just using the BOTNET rule directly, not as a meta-rule, the BOTNET_SOHO code is called internally, so it should automatically kick in an exempt a host from BOTNET if it appears to be a soho type mail server. I'm not sure I understand what you m

Re: BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-27 Thread Andy Spiegl
John Rudd wrote: > When you're just using the BOTNET rule directly, not as a meta-rule, the > BOTNET_SOHO code is called internally, so it should automatically kick in > an exempt a host from BOTNET if it appears to be a soho type mail server. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "using as

Re: BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-27 Thread John Rudd
Andy Spiegl wrote: ...I wonder how to deal with the cases where there is a legitimate internal mailserver behind dialup-IPs. There are quite a few small companies that have a small home office network behind a dialup DSL and run an internal mailserver which relays external mail to the mailserver

BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-27 Thread Andy Spiegl
...I wonder how to deal with the cases where there is a legitimate internal mailserver behind dialup-IPs. There are quite a few small companies that have a small home office network behind a dialup DSL and run an internal mailserver which relays external mail to the mailserver of their provider wh