Re: MTS transparency and anonymity
Keith Moore <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.rfc822 |
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>> among them are: anonymous@[0.0.0.0], anonymous@[127.0.0.1], >> anonymous@[127.255.255.255], anonymous@[::0], and anonymous@[::1]. > > (Don't these have mostly the same DNS problems as [email protected]?) they shouldn't. any MTA that tries to do a DNS lookup of a domain literal is seriously broken. (and at least at one time there was a popular MTA that would look up the PTR record for the IP address, get a domain name, and try to substitute that domain name - which is completely ridiculous. the whole point of using a domain literal is to connect directly to the SMTP server at that address.)