On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:36:07AM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I read about the spamd redirect in pf.conf. However, I wonder if it > might be useful to set up a redirect to something like this: > > http://www.fresh.files2.serveftp.net/smtarpit/ > > I suppose it doesn't make a difference, but I do want to make it > extremely painful for any spammers. What are other people doing on > this part?
I doubt this is of much use for a few reasons: 1) Many spammers don't bother with any result codes. They open a connection and start spewing data. 2) Those who do look at result codes will quickly stop if this technique becomes prevalent. 3) There is no way to distinguish between legitimate email and spam. Anyone setting this up would have to be very careful about how they present the email addresses for the tarpit to the net to make sure they didn't got to legitimate email senders. 4) Many spammers use zombied machines on cable modems and the like to do their dirty work. Gumming up those machines doesn't really mean much to them; they'll just go find more. If you want to setup a tarpit/honeypot, I think it would be much more productive to run http://projecthoneypot.org. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
