Actually many ISPs allow the routing of RFC1989 addresses, IMHO due to
lazyness. My routers block hundreds of them everyday.
It appears that spammers use them mostly...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:mallet@efn.org]
> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 8:43 AM
> To: j2; exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Hiding originatin IP?
>
>
> spamfilter2@??? (j2) writes:
> > My superiors wants me to investigate the possibility of
> "masking" all
> > IP's from sending hosts within our intranet.. Or replace them with a
> > hash of the IP. As in, they do not want the RFC 1918 IP of the
> > sending system to be viewable in the headers. Or, as i
> said, hash it.
> > (exim 4.x)
>
> RFC1918 = Not routable over the 'net, and not viewable over
> the 'net at all.
> So what is the fricking point?
>
> > Can this be done?
> > Would it violate any RFC?
>
> Would screw you the very next time you got yourself a mail
> loop / sircam
> infected computer or whatever.
>
