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Please elaborate a little on dark traffic.

May 8th, 2008 21:05
dman, i can do it, Prabhash Bhattnagar, http://sturly.com

Dark traffic is nothing but invalid SMTP traffic that comes through the 
internet. Invalid traffic comprises of undeliverable messages and other 
communications. Because these messages cannot be delivered to a valid e-
mail user, they are useless for the company. Some examples of such 
traffic include directory harvest attacks (DHA), Denial of Service 
attacks (DoS), messages to non existent recipient addresses, or 
messages that should not be accepted by the enterprise network, or 
malformed SMTP packets.
Prabhash Bhattanagar