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Mon Nov 22 05:16:39 UTC 1999

On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Kai Schlichting wrote:

> THEY WILL FIND YOUR RELAYS ON THEIR OWN, AND THEY WILL ABUSE THEM, NO
> MATTER HOW LOUD YOU SCREAM.

In transition to a new mail server (with a new address), I installed a
plug-gateway on the old server to redirect mail.

Unfortunately, plugd hides the ip address of the sender, and since I trust
my netblocks, all of the ip addresses on the old server became "spam relay
entry points".

It took the spammers 96 hours to find 3 of the addresses on that box and
for us to be listed in orbs.  I figured I would have at least had a week
or two to figure out a better way.

I ended up staying up all night getting transparent proxying to work right
on the new server and making it work with a cisco route-map.

- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc at imach.com) KD7EHZ
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