trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers everywhere (fwd)

Thu Aug 2 21:17:57 UTC 2001

I think MAPS managed to DOS themselves.  Since they are refusing queries
BIND can't cache the response and so it just keeps trying with every new
e-mail.  The traffic hitting MAPS servers has to be impressive.

Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
(419) 833-3635

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Steven J. Sobol
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 4:33 PM
To: Larry Sheldon
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers
everywhere (fwd)

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Larry Sheldon wrote:

>
> > It is interesting to see some of the sites that not only use(d) the
MAPS
> > lists for free, but didn't even bother to do the zone transfer mode
> > (which reduces the load on the MAPS servers and speeds up your local
> > use).
>
> At least one of us thinks the zone transfer mode was not free

It was, until just recently.

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