Ignoring unqualified MX's ?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Tue Mar 21 15:51:20 UTC 2000


In article <20000321133850.B16823 at tfj.rnd.uni-c.dk>,
torben fjerdingstad  <unitfj-bind at tfj.rnd.uni-c.dk> wrote:
>One of our customers has had a lot of mail loops because
>a spammer has this in his return-path:
>Return-path: info at internet.net
>
>The problem with that is:
>
>$ host -t mx internet.net
>internet.net            MX      5 localhost
>
>Is it possible to make bind discard that information without
>creating a local master zone file for the bogus zone?

I know of no way to make BIND ignore it.  Maybe there's some way to make
your mailer ignore it, though.

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