On Jun 24, 2006, at 4:20 AM, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote: > * On 23/06/06 15:28 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > | > | On Jun 23, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote: > | > | >I can explain. The server used to be advertised as MX for hundreds > | >of domains I host. Then I decided to hide the box (DNS changes). > | >Instead I advertised another box, but which I configured to do > | >manual routing for these domains to the now "hidden" box. > | >Spammers, in their hundreds, are still connecting to this hidden > | >box despite a TTL of 24 hours. This is what I am grappling with. > | >Call it "playing with". > | > | Can you just change the IP address of this box? > > Yes, I can, but it also means I change the same in some thousands of > zone files, which is easy, but in the process, also deny service to > my customers who have used an IP address in their MUA instead of > the hostname. > Using an IP address is a common workaround for folks who don't want > to fix name resolution problems on their PCs ;)
But it is a one time (per person) support call to give them the new address and if you alert them first and run dual IPs on the box for a while you can probably avoid half of those too. K.I.S.S. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
