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Re: elvis@graceland.com: Re: Postel's Draft


Simon Higgs writes:
> server, but this isn't very suprising as graceland.com is aliased to
> mail.higgs.net. The posting host is 204.250.49.206 which is also
> elvis.graceland.com. No suprises there - this information is all
> available via nslookup. There isn't a host there at the moment so
> anyone could have used that IP address.

Anyone could have used that address provided that they subverted all
the routers between themselves and you and also subverted
mail.higgs.net so that it attempted to send datagrams destined for a
local network address to the router instead of locally. This seems
rather sketchy at best.

Perry