On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:03, Mark Andrews wrote:
In article <41AF5C33.4050202@nrg4u.com> you write:
You would put in a global wildcard that says no smtp sender here. Only for those boxes being legitimate SMTP to outside senders you'd put in a more specific record as shown above. You probably have to enter some dozen to one hundred servers this way. Sure your reverse zone scripts need some changes but it's only two or three lines.
Ideally you could tell your DNS server in the zone file this:
_send._smtp._srv.*.*.173.128.in-addr.arpa. IN TXT "0" _send._smtp._srv.*.*.82.198.in-addr.arpa. IN TXT "0"
being overidden by more specific information on single IP addresses.
You obviouly do not know how wildcard work in the DNS or you would not have made this suggestion. Please read RFC 1034 and work though Section 4.3.2. Algorithm with a QNAME of _send._smtp._srv.1.1.173.128.in-addr.arpa.
The proposal did say that it does not involve changing DNS? It would be nice to have a method to publish mail policy in a global fashion without confronting the problems of wildcards or walking the directories. *.tld TXT != mail policy thanks to exists +-~... & kitchen sink. : ( -Doug