Re: Spam from SecurityFocus outgoing email servers!

[James Tucker <jftucker () gmail com>]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:06:45 +0530, Aditya Deshmukh
<aditya.deshmukh () online gateway expertworks net> wrote:
> > Hello list members,
> >    Here is an interesting piece of spam I received that originated
> > from "205.206.231.27" which resolves to "outgoing.securityfocus.com".
> > Doing a DNS lookup for "outgoing.securityfocus.com" returns the IP
> > addresses "205.206.231.27, 205.206.231.26". Has anyone else received
> > this? Note the IP Address "63.242.122.41" belongs to my email server.
>
> Which dns server are u using can u try a different server and do the same
> queries ?
>
> I think a this is DNS cache poisoning

If so, quite extensively executed it would seem:

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=outgoing.securityfocus.com&type=A
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=205.206.231.26


> -aditya
>
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