[ILUG] mail account.

Sat Mar 13 21:08:45 GMT 2004

nils said on Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:14:30PM +0000:
> Ok so here it is, chorus offers a broadband package,I would imagine 
> that the chorus engineers would be clued in enough to have the sense to
> read some RFC documents about how the internet works, i.e not using
> 10.x.x.x on public internet.

They're not. An internet-facing machine has to have an IP address that's not
RFC1918 reserved address space. Packets will not route to it otherwise. I
don't know where you're getting the idea that they do. They don't. Assuming
you're on chorus, what you're seeing below (the 10.0.0.0/8 addresses) are
addresses on your local LAN.

> also the mailsever that they us allows any joe soap to sign up for an
> email account without any checking done.
> It  *could* be a field day for spammers.

Just like any other free email service, you mean?

	- DoC

> 
> On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 19:50, Dave O Connor wrote:
> > What's funny is the drugs you're on. What in the name of mercy are you on
> > about?
> > 
> > 	- DoC
> > 
> > nils said on Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 07:47:26PM +0000:
> > > hi,
> > > For all the mail admins out there check out 
> > > http://mail.cablenet.ie:3000/
> > > And i thought that having private address space exposed 
> > > to the internet was bad.
> > > as in:
> > > traceroute to dagda.tuatha.org (193.1.31.98), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
> > >  1  10.63.1.1 (10.63.1.1)  5.293 ms  6.000 ms  5.728 ms
> > >  2  10.60.1.61 (10.60.1.61)  351.508 ms  461.369 ms  388.478 ms
> > > this is just funny.
> > > nils
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
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