[CentOS] Split dns issues

Mon Aug 3 16:38:39 UTC 2009
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 12:28
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Split dns issues
> 
> Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >  
> >> Personally, I don't like to rely on features that are 
> vendor-specific 
> >> like that but it might be a quick fix for this problem.  The real 
> >> solution would be to configure your sending sendmails to use a 
> >> MAIL_HUB setting - at least any
> > 
> > Not all of the systems can be configured as such (policy 
> and/or technology).
> 
> I'd expect the most common case to be mail user agents that 
> have to be specifically configured for the forwarding smtp 
> server anyway.  

In fact most are default configurations. An engineer will up an (vm) image, give
it some tasks to do (temp website, software builds, experimental config, etc...)
and the data/logs are emailed to him when done.

> What else do you have sending a lot of 
> internal mail?  

Think about things like logwatch, cron, at, etc..., but not always on linux.
This will get forwarded to support or a specific engineer.


> Or are these laptops that may or may not have 
> direct access to the internal server?
> 

That is one of our use cases, exactly, and that is where this mail will come
from.

-Jason


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