[plug] [OT] signs that you're having a bad day: and why

[Ben Jensz]

There is now also an update to Postfix so you can configure it to block 
Verisign's wildcard lunacy.


/ Ben


Leon Brooks wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:15, Luke Dudney wrote:
>  
>
>>The bulk of it was from just a few. But by the time you've got 45,000
>>messages addressed to anywhere between 400,000 - 800,000 recipients
>>mixed into the queues of three servers, the damage has been done.
>>    
>>
>
>Want to know why your mail servers are churning? Install the BIND patch 
>and they'll stop:
>
>    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/17/1154242
>
>The nub of the matter is that VeriSign are now answering for nonexistent 
>domains, INCLUDING FOR EMAIL, so every time a spammer sends you stuff 
>from a crap domain, your email servers try to bounce it... to VeriSign.
>
>Needless to say, VeriSign now has the mother of all overload problems, 
>and you're about to run out of queue space if you don't block their IP 
>address (and bin *all* mail to that IP) in a hurry.
>
>D'ya think VeriSign might be in just a teensy bit of trouble for 
>breaking email servers and proxy caches the world over by answering DNS 
>requests that weren't supposed to be answered?
>
>Cheers; Leon
>
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