Re-sending due to Merit's minor outage. - ferg ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net> wrote:
The fact that they're rejecting on a 5xx error based on no DNS PTR is a=
bit harsh. While I'm all for requiring all hosts to have valid PTR records, there are times when transient or problem servers can cause a DNS lookup failure or miss, etc. If anything they should be returning a= 4xx to have the remote host"try again later".
Oh, wait till you realize that some of the HTTP returns are bogus altogether -- and actually still serve malware. It's pretty rampant right now. :-/ - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGxR1lq1pz9mNUZTMRApQRAKCEOLpuu69A1+B4vCHQTZs+hHLKaACcD1Ak 9JNwl2i1mL08WNUQSlXBYGM=3D =3DffuN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/