Re: [0.0.0.0] (was: MTS transparency and anonymity)

Claus Assmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005, Keith Moore wrote:

> nice try.  but in practice if you try to connect to 0.0.0.0 you'll get 
> an error, which is what we want to happen.

That depends on your OS:

mine$ uname -a
SunOS mine 5.9 Generic_117171-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
mine$ telnet 0.0.0.0 25
Trying 0.0.0.0...
Connected to 0.0.0.0.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mine ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 05:48:09 +0100 (MET)

mine# date | /usr/lib/sendmail -Am -v 'user@[0.0.0.0]'
user@[0.0.0.0]... Connecting to [0.0.0.0] via smtp8...
220 mine ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 05:48:19 +0100 (MET)
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