[156018] in North American Network Operators' Group
The End-To-End Internet (was Re: Blocking MX query)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Sep 4 12:06:02 2012
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:05:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120904120038.1e4374fa@bart>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Peach" <john-nanog@johnpeach.com>
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:57:38 -0400 (EDT)
> Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> > SMTP Auth to *arbitrary remote domains' MX servers*? Am I missing
> > something,
> > or are you?
>
> I run an MTA on my server and auth to that from laptops and other
> clients. Relaying allowed for authorised users.
So, in other words, it's ok to rant and stomp our feet about the end-to-end
architecture and how critical it is to support in order to diss NAT, but
we're required to ignore it when discussing SMTP?
I'm not sure I'm following, there.
Cheers,
-- jra
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