On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, David Ulevitch wrote: > I'm sending this forward to incidents for two reasons. > > 1) The reason ORBZ appears to have been shut down is because of the > problem with Lotus Domino servers crashing/hanging when receiving > bounces with null envelope senders.(check archives for exact issue) > Does anyone have a complete list of any other from addresses/formats that will cause load issues on Domino. I know from Ian's bugtraq post that anything@[127.0.0.1] will do it. What about anything@localhost, anything@[servers-IP], etc.? Has Lotus fixed this in any Domino release, or are they all brain damaged. > 2) A lot of mail servers will HANG or be EXTREMELY slow if they are > setup to check against ORBZ name service for spamboxes. Just like when MAPS surprised everyone with no more free service. > A good solution is to switch to using something like ORDB > (www.ordb.org) Or any number of other dnsbl's. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewisat_private*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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