Tuesday, March 07, 2000
TCP/IP over SMTP … RFC?
Via Flutterby this wonderful page about tunnelling TCP/IP over SMTP.Yes, you read right—a way to tunnel TCP/IP over the SMTP protocol, which itself runs over TCP/IP. The author of the page states that this is for firewalls so restrictive that only email passes through. Issues of latency aside, is seems so … convoluted … to do such a thing.
But remember—the Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it. Often times in ways people don't expect.
IN-ADDR.ARPA DNS
I've been helping someone setup DNS—more specifically, so he can control the reverse lookups. I use NS records but according to the documentation of BIND and RFC2317, you're supposed to use this horrible CNAME hack. The only thing I can think of for doing that, beyond the Complexity for Complexity's Sake Syndrome, is to avoid confusing a person over having to configure an IN-ADDR.ARPA domain they're not really delagated to serve.I was told the trick by my friend Kelly who used it for his home network. He sat down and applied some thought as to how DNS works and came up with this method.
I like it better than the “official” way.
