Thus spake Chuck Swiger (cswiger at mac.com) [17/05/05 08:27]:
: I wasn't motivated enough to compare the headers versus other postings, or
: to check whether the IP that claimed to be "hub.freebsd.org" actually is--
: if you control reverse DNS for some netblock, you can make any box claim to
: be a certain hostname.
There's more than just reverse DNS trickery going on:
Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18])
by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
id 500505BD09; Mon, 16 May 2005 20:39:43 +0000 (GMT)
(envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org)
Received: from hub.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
id 6E18216A4E3; Mon, 16 May 2005 20:39:37 +0000 (GMT)
Delivered-To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 618)
id 0A38316A4D0; Mon, 16 May 2005 20:39:32 +0000 (GMT)
If that's a forgery, then I'm *very* impressed.