From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 14 01:56:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA25258 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 01:56:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [207.90.181.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA25253 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 01:56:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ulf@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id BAA03216; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 01:56:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.Alameda.net(207.90.181.2) via SMTP by DNS.Lamb.net, id smtpd003214; Sun Dec 14 01:56:03 1997 Received: (from ulf@localhost) by Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (8.8.6/8.7.6) id BAA12602; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 01:55:52 -0800 (PST) From: Ulf Zimmermann Message-Id: <199712140955.BAA12602@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net> Subject: Re: weird IP address In-Reply-To: <19971214004546.03594@mooseriver.com> from Josef Grosch at "Dec 14, 97 00:45:46 am" To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 01:55:52 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > While sending out hate mail to the latest round of spammers I got an answer > back from nslookup that I just do not understand. I got spam from > MoneyMakers.com. When I did an nslookup I got the following: > > superior% nslookup moneymakers.com > Server: superior.mooseriver.com > Address: 205.166.121.5 > > Non-authoritative answer: > Name: moneymakers.com > Address: 1.1.1.1 > ^^^^^^^ Very simple. Most people now reject email from not existing domains. So they created the domain and put into their name server at NS.PROPAGATION.COM and NS2.PROPAGATION.COM the IP number of 1.1.1.1. It is a kind of real IP number, even it is not in use. (First class A network). > > > Josef > > -- > Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.5 > jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses > > Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073