Marc Perkel wrote:
Richard Frovarp wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
Terry Soucy wrote:
In the testing we have done here, less than 1% of connections to
our low
priority MX actually cycled around to one of the higher priority MX
systems to deliver the message. I'm still not sure if this is a
growing
pattern yet, but it could be a sign of spambots catching on.
Whether or
not they hit a *randon* MX record is kind of difficult to
determin. As
already mentioned, I would *love* to see this information.
Terry, of my 8 MX records 4 are spam traps. The are the highest
numbered MX. I have 3 real servers online right now on lower
numbered MX records so no legit email should got to the 4 upper MX
records. The hits over the last 9 hours are as follows:
65521, 74854, 26132 and 27076 hits
This indicates to me that the spam bots are hitting random MX
records. Of those 1511 have connected 10 times or more to one of
these 4 addresses.
The question is, how can you prove that those hits are bots? I've
seen references that indicate different legitimate mailers don't
always follow the correct order of MX records.
Interesting. What legitimate servers don't follow MX order?
I've heard Exchange and Notes/Domino in the past. I don't know if there
is any truth to this or not.
