Quite a many of vger's recipients are doing return-path verification
testing for SMTP's MAIL FROM address.
I would not mind that, EXCEPT that those bloody stupid things don't
have any sane caches at all! VGER is sending 300+ messages per
day to 3500+ recipients of linux-kernel list EVERY DAY, and every
outgoing message is now getting oodles of those probes!
Folks, when you deploy that kind of testers, DO VERIFY THAT THEY
HAVE SANE CACHES! A positive result shall be cached for at least
two hours, a negative result shall be cached for at least 30 minutes.
That would send a dozen back-probes towards vger from recipient
system, instead of present 300+ !
/Matti Aarnio -- who considers some cures worse than the original problem...
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Sep 07 2002 - 22:00:16 EST