[4846] in Release_7.7_team
Re: athena and outgoing-auth.mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Sep 29 21:29:11 2004
Message-Id: <200409300129.i8U1T3OX010162@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>,
release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:42:03 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:29:01 -0400
Yes, that is correct, so 9.1 machines should be fine until netops
disables unauthenticated smtp, but that's orthogonal to this change
(and I have not heard a date for that bandied about recently, so I
have no reason to believe it is imminent).
Jonathon
> My understanding from talking to Mark yesterday and to Jonathon is
> that the change that would be made would be to set the MX for
> athena.mit.edu to be:
>
> 100 OUTGOING.MIT.EDU
>
> Which would then go through the load balancer, and connections using
> auth would be pointed at outgoing-auth.mit.edu. Presumably 9.1
> machines would still be sending unauth mail, and the load balancer
> would point them at outgoing-legacy.mit.edu and it would all work.
>
> -Jon
>
> At 10:15 AM -0400 9/29/04, Greg Hudson wrote:
> >Will 9.1 machines become unable to send mail when the change is made to
> >the MX record?
>
>
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> Jonathan Reed
>
> jdreed@mit.edu
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