On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:34:30PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> It also does a nice job of destroying the "non-existant sender" spam
> defense, since every non-existant .com and .net apparently now has a
> mail server:
> http://linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2003-September/016294.html

well i'm not sure about this ... 

although there is a dummy SMTP server at that IP, I'd say that is
there because if it wasn't, other than getting an error you'd get
timeouts.  But futher, there is no MX record so mail should never get
that far.

--- dig extract ---
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;asdfasdfasdfljasdlfkjasdf.net. IN      MX

I would think it would be wise for the reverse lookups to be querying
MX records anyway; if they generally do is another matter.

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