Security Basics: RE: Hiding IP in E-Mail..

[chort <chort () amaunetsgothique com>]

On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 14:48, Mike Smith wrote:
> And did anyone actually try a traceroute to "snow.email.ne.jp".....I
> couldn't find it anywhere - but I didn't try that hard to locate it.
> My 2 cents, he's on the spam-gang fast-track.
> And we *will* come for him in the night....
Well, generally I'm skeptical, but this domain has been registered for a
while and the parent has been around since '97.  A simple traceroute
won't be very informative, trying using whois and dig.  Just because a
domain does not have an A record doesn't mean there's no MX (how else
would they get mail?).

Let's not start seeing spammers behind every rock and tree...

-- 
Brian Keefer


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