full-disclosure - Spam from SecurityFocus outgoing email servers!

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From: jftucker at gmail.com (James Tucker)
Subject: Spam from SecurityFocus outgoing email servers!

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:06:45 +0530, Aditya Deshmukh
<aditya.deshmukh@...ine.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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