- Jared
Richard B. Johnson boldly claimed:
> On Mon, 26 May 1997, Olaf Titz wrote:
>
> > > Here's a thought... if you're not the nameserver for your domain, just
> > > tell the nameserver to ignore requests from those domains, and laugh as
> > > all their mail bounces back to their postmaster and creates a fun mess.
> >
> > Doesn't work; DNS info is cached all over the world and the
> > probability that another DNS out there answers the request for you is
> > very high. (Or else you would get swamped with requests...)
> >
> > olaf
> >
>
> Can't this work? Set up an alias, using the offending IP address, on your
> local network. It will keep the junk off the local area network without
> mucking with the internet at all. Linux machines can alias many IP
> addresses... ifconfig eth0:N www.hotsex.com, route add www.hotsex.com dev
> eth0:N
>
> We use this to keep employees from playing on company time. It should
> work on incoming mail, also, because the mail daemon will see duplicate
> IP Addresses (haven't tried it).
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
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> Richard B. Johnson
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> Analogic Corporation
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