List confirmation letters carry useless `from' IP address

Sergey Zaharchenko doublef at tele-kom.ru
Mon May 10 10:01:19 PDT 2004


Quoting a confirmation:

> We have received a request from 216.136.204.117 for subscription of
> your email address, "doublef at tele-kom.ru", to the
> ctm-ports-cur at freebsd.org mailing list.  To confirm that you want to

df at Shark:~> dig @ns.t-k.ru -x 216.136.204.117
[snip]
;; ANSWER SECTION:
117.204.136.216.in-addr.arpa.  11m5s IN PTR  www.freebsd.org.
[snip]

I thought that the address should be the one of the host which connected
to lists.freebsd.org, so that if I were maliciously subscribed (note I
am not), I could find out who does that.

If a PR should be sent, which category should it belong to?

-- 
DoubleF
How come only your friends step on your new white sneakers?
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