[2622] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: MIT Mailhubs Linux-Athena mail from outside net-18
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Sun Feb 14 13:47:54 1999
To: Ron Hoffmann <hoffmann@MIT.EDU>
Cc: postmaster@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 14 Feb 1999 13:47:08 -0500
In-Reply-To: Ron Hoffmann's message of Sun, 14 Feb 1999 11:49:56 -0500
Ron Hoffmann <hoffmann@MIT.EDU> writes:
> The "athena clients" (if we mean cluster machines) are on campus
> and that's different.
Perhaps, but a lot of the point of the current Linux-Athena work is to
use the Athena configurations. In addition, as per a lot of issues
from you, Ted, Tom, Chris, etc. w.r.t. off-campus machines, Linux-Athena
is a set of stable packages that layer on top of pure Linux.
> Also, we deliberately requested that those machines continue to
> use "athena" as the relay so we continue to have a handle on them
> and could remap that name as necessary to optimize service.
Perhaps we should change the name to something like
'mailhost.mit.edu', an internal name that the athena clients use which
is separate from the external 'athena.mit.edu' domain name. This way
you have the ability to MX 'internal' machines and 'external' machines
separately.
> Lastly, it's clear that ssa and pca should exhibit the same
> behavior and they apparently do not. We'll get that fixed. I
> would say for now to leave the redhat-based machines as they
> are, using the "athena" sendmail.cf .
What is the "desired behavior," in particular w.r.t. off-campus
clients?
Thanks.
-derek
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