14 Apr
2004
14 Apr
'04
12:09 a.m.
John Curran wrote: If we can fix this by changing default behavior to make such machines less useful to hackers, while still allowing anyone who wants to originate to do so at will via configuration, what is the harm?
Besides architectural purity (which still bears weight) the problem is that configuration costs money. I have my own SMTP server at home because I'm not happy with my ISP's smarthost. That same ISP can't reverse-lookup my static IP to return a PTR that has my domain name in it, explain me how they will build a filter that un-filters port 25 for my IP and does not for the next one. Michel.