Journal Stephen Samuel's Journal: abuse.net via DNS
A slightly diferent way to accomplish this would be to make the abuse.net data available via DNS...
some.domain.mailbase.abuse.net could return a TXT record saying 'postmaster-abuse@some.domain'. A mailer built to support this method would then send the email directly to postmaster-abuse@some.domain These lookups could be cached at various DNS servers, thus distributing the load on abuse.net for oft-(ab)used domains.
This does require specially crafted mailers, but -- as the method becomes more widespread, it could noticably reduce the load for abuse.net. This can be more generically viewed as a way to store a distributed per-domain database of relatively arbitrary data.
abuse.net via DNS More Login
abuse.net via DNS
Slashdot Top Deals