On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:57:41 -0500 Mark Weaver <mdw1982@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote > [...] > > from what I've been reading in E-week the last few weeks the sheer level > of spam and especially phishing thats going on over the Internet, it is > placing an inordinate amount of stress on existing DNS services around > the internet. The biggest contributing factor to this added load is the > fact that the majority of Mail servers are doing reverse DNS lookups on > messages coming in - many are failing which causes the mail service to > repeat the attempt until it reaches its break-point where it won't try > any more for that domain. Thanks, Mark. I haven't dug up anything especially suspicious in either my Linux box or the MSWxxx box. The biggest complaint I have about Microsoft is that they not only ship product before the product is ready, but they ship before the infrastructure is really in place. And they take the profit home and leave us to clean up the mess. -- Joel Rees <rees@xxxxxxxxxxx> digitcom, inc. 株式会社デジコム Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800 ** <http://www.ddcom.co.jp> **
