Not sure where you got "greyscanner" from, but you should probably ask the authors.
On 2012 Dec 26 (Wed) at 21:31:26 +0100 (+0100), Jan Stary wrote: :This is spamd and greyscanner on current/macppc. :Generally, it works very well for me. : :Recently, I see greyscanner trapping hosts that try to :"mail from sender with no MX or A", such as : :Dec 26 17:21:13 www greyscanner[31861]: Trapped 87.219.109.249: :Mailed from sender bernina.co.il with no MX or A : :That's a spammer alright, a typical mail from there looks like :(GREY) 87.219.109.249: <[email protected]> -> <[email protected]> :However, there _is_ a MX and A record for bernina.co.il: : :$ host -t a bernina.co.il :bernina.co.il has address 62.90.102.9 :$ host -t mx bernina.co.il :bernina.co.il mail is handled by 20 mx5.adcd.co.il. :bernina.co.il mail is handled by 10 mx4.adcd.co.il. : :So there is something wrong. Same way, gmail.com got trapped: : :Dec 26 20:54:32 www greyscanner[12163]: Trapped 209.85.215.177: Mailed :from sender gmail.com with no MX or A : :Needless to say, there are MX and A records for gmail.com :(and there must have been at Dec 26 20:54:32 too). : :What could be causing this? DNS resolving works fine on this machine. :Could it be that for some reason, greyscanner failed to resolve :at that precise moment? Can the "$DNS_SOCK_MAX = 50;" setting :have something to do with it? : :Is anyone else seeing this? : : Jan : -- In Corning, Iowa, it's a misdemeanor for a man to ask his wife to ride in any motor vehicle.
