[3216] in Kerberos
Re: Ticket cracking (Re: Is there Kerberos for VMS?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Sat Apr 30 00:09:34 1994
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 23:55:13 EDT
From: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: Glen Zorn <glenz@ocsg.com>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Cc: postmaster@ocsg.com, postmaster@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Glen Zorn's message of Fri, 29 Apr 1994 16:53:32 -0700,
<199404292353.QAA08961@kerby.ocsg.com>
My apologies for the mail loop. The problem seems to be that the
mailier at kerby.ocsg.com has a too-short SMTP timeout configured
Having a timeout at all goes against the SMTP spec, but most mailers
have one. kerby's is just set too small, so that it was timing out
before the mailer at MIT had a chance to deliver the message to everyone
on the kerberos list. So when kerby's mailer got impatient, it would
disconnect, and try again, and again, and again....
To the OCSG people:
To solve this problem, since it's 10 minutes before midnight on
Friday night, and I want to go home :-), I've configured our
mailers to not accept any SMTP connections from kerby.ocsg.com.
When someone from ocsg has a chance to remove the errant message
from their mailer queue, and has a chance to adjust the mailer
timer up by quite a bit, let me know via email, and I will allow
kerby.ocsg.com to connect to the MIT mailers again. You will
either send mail to tytso@mit.edu from some machine other than
kerby.ocsg.com, or you can send mail to me at
tytso@tsx-11.mit.edu.
- Ted
