[Gllug] How to handle spam bounces from secondary MX server

[Dan Kolb]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:59:04AM -0000, John Winters wrote:
> > One current spammer technique is to batch-query MX records and publish the
> > results to the botnet. Their cache of MX records is held for a long time,
> > so
> > periodically changing your mailserver IPs can help.
> 
> Alas, I have only one appropriate IPv4 address available.
> 
> OTOH, I have an extremely large number of IPv6 addresses.  Do you think
> publishing only an AAAA record for my mail server would help reduce spam?

Yep. And reduce legitimate mail too.

Dan
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