Wrote Anand Kumria on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:17:02PM +1100:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 08:40:44AM +1100, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:06:02PM +1100, John Ferlito said:
> > --> 
> > -->         The From: header for that spam to the list looked like this for me
> > --> 
> > -->  From:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > --> 
> > 
> > BTW, ns.inodes.org is allowing zone transfers.. :)
> 
> As it should. It is a trivial amount of time to write a script which
> hammers the DNS servers asking for every record type with every
> possible record name.

But trivial often doesn't mean as much as usual with spammers/crackers.
I get a number of rejects per day on my servers with just a
allow-transfer directive.

Is this not a standard measure?

Chuck

               [ charles hamilton dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]


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