What are they smoking?

Mon Sep 15 23:34:36 UTC 2003

-- On Tuesday, September 16, 2003 00:56 +0200
-- Niels Bakker <niels=nanog at bakker.net> supposedly wrote:

> A wildcard A record in the net TLD.
>
> $ host does.really-not-exist.net
> does.really-not-exist.net has address 64.94.110.11
>
> $ host 64.94.110.11
> 11.110.94.64.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer sitefinder-idn.verisign.com
>
> It even responds on port 25 (says 550 on every RCPT TO).  Gah.

No, it accepts if the from domain exists - but only if it *REALLY* exists.

[...]
rcpt to: fooo at baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar.net
250 OK
mail from: fooooo at baaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr.net
550 User domain does not exist.
mail from: patrick at ianai.net
250 OK

Nice that their spam filters still work. :(

And I love the 221 close message:

data
221 snubby1-wcwest Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission 
channel
Connection closed by foreign host.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

What *are* they smoking?

What are they smoking?