I was replying to your comment that you block helo strings thar are ip
addresses. Look at your previous post.



Kevin Bilbee




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> From: "Kevin Bilbee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:53 PM
> Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Random Helo strings
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>
> > Brackets are perfectly valid in the host name if they wrap an
> ip address.
> > [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]. I have seen this only from valid sources and if I
> > remember correctly HELOBOGUS will pass a wellformed ip address.
>
> Yes, this is correct.  However, what you presented was not an IP
> address, it
> was bracketed letters:
>
> <rnddg[2]>.<rnddg[2]>.<rnddg[2]>.<rnddg[2]>
>
> This is clearly not a valid hostname, bracketed or not.  In face, even if
> all of the letter above were numbers, in the format shown about,
> it is still
> not a valid bracketed IP address.
>
> Bill
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