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Hi.

When submitting spam, spamcop tries to resolve the DNS name from URL's that are included ind the mail.

It could be, e.g. http://63GHfw.suspect-domain.com

SpamCop tries to resolve 63GHfw.suspect-domain.com - which might end up negative (no A or CNAME record). - But it could be, that the spammer has set up a * record - so that all requests to hosts on suspect-domain.com (except those with a specific record) hits a webserver - where they can track the hostname (in this case 63GHfw), and maybe use that for an index of a valid email of a user who clicked the URL in their mail...

I'd like SpamCop to be able to search for this * record - in order to identify a possible web-server, that handles a spamvertized web-page....

Regards

/Brian

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Please provide a specific example where this is the problem. I have never seen this to be a problem with the parser. Usually, it is simply long lookup times that are the issue.

I don't know if you are able to see the report on my submission - an example is located at

http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z1317977893z8...d92c38b92bcc4az

The webpage with techinal details says:

Resolving link obfuscation

http://MDY5YmVlODA5MDk5ZTEyZDVlMmE5MWQz.ogaldternative.com

Host mdy5ymvloda5mdk5zteyzdvlmme5mwqz.ogaldternative.com (checking ip) IP not found ; mdy5ymvloda5mdk5zteyzdvlmme5mwqz.ogaldternative.com discarded as fake.

Host mdy5ymvloda5mdk5zteyzdvlmme5mwqz.ogaldternative.com (checking ip) IP not found ; mdy5ymvloda5mdk5zteyzdvlmme5mwqz.ogaldternative.com discarded as fake.

Tracking link: http://MDY5YmVlODA5MDk5ZTEyZDVlMmE5MWQz.ogaldternative.com/

[report history]

Cannot resolve http://MDY5YmVlODA5MDk5ZTEyZDVlMmE5MWQz.ogaldternative.com/

But if I do a lookup on the hostname (or a * record), I get the IP address

Name: ogaldternative.com

Address: 121.10.172.22

Aliases: *.ogaldternative.com

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I don't know if you are able to see the report on my submission - an example is located at

http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z1317977893z8...d92c38b92bcc4az

And once again, this seems to be more of a timeout issue than anything else. Every URL I have ever seen show the IP not found error that I have tested, has had a lookup in excess of 500ms, an eternity in DNS time, especially when doing ~10 spams with multiple lookups every second. It is likely that a lookup of your spam with only the host as the website would also timeout. I will test when I get back to the computer. Commute is calling.

C:\Documents and Settings\sunderwood\dig>dig ogaldternative.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> ogaldternative.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ogaldternative.com.			IN	  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ogaldternative.com.	 60	  IN	  A	   121.10.172.22

;; [color="#FF0000"]Query time: 859 msec[/color]
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun 05 07:18:08 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 52


C:\Documents and Settings\sunderwood\dig>dig mdy5ymvloda5mdk5zteyzdvlmme5mwqz.og
aldternative.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> mdy5ymvloda5mdk5zteyzdvlmme5mwqz.ogaldternative.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mdy5ymvloda5mdk5zteyzdvlmme5mwqz.ogaldternative.com. IN		A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mdy5ymvloda5mdk5zteyzdvlmme5mwqz.ogaldternative.com. 0 IN A 208.69.32.132

;; [color="#FF0000"]Query time: 6015 msec[/color]
;; SERVER: 208.67.220.220#53(208.67.220.220)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun 05 07:18:39 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 85

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It is likely that a lookup of your spam with only the host as the website would also timeout. I will test when I get back to the computer. Commute is calling.

As I expected: http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z1318606670z1...056ad4d8617a08z

Resolving link obfuscation
   [url="http://ogaldternative.com"]http://ogaldternative.com[/url]
   Host ogaldternative.com (checking ip) IP not found ; ogaldternative.com discarded as fake.
   Host ogaldternative.com (checking ip) IP not found ; ogaldternative.com discarded as fake.

Tracking link: [url="http://ogaldternative.com/"]http://ogaldternative.com/[/url]
No recent reports, no history available

Cannot resolve [url="http://ogaldternative.com/"]http://ogaldternative.com/[/url]

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