* On 23/06/06 15:28 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
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| On Jun 23, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
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| >I can explain. The server used to be advertised as MX for hundreds
| >of domains I host. Then I decided to hide the box (DNS changes).
| >Instead I advertised another box, but which I configured to do
| >manual routing for these domains to the now "hidden" box.
| >Spammers, in their hundreds, are still connecting to this hidden
| >box despite a TTL of 24 hours. This is what I am grappling with.
| >Call it "playing with".
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| Can you just change the IP address of this box?
Yes, I can, but it also means I change the same in some thousands of
zone files, which is easy, but in the process, also deny service to
my customers who have used an IP address in their MUA instead of
the hostname.
Using an IP address is a common workaround for folks who don't want
to fix name resolution problems on their PCs ;)
cheers
- wash
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