[tech] [wheel] UCC ext-mx

David Adam zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Tue May 18 10:54:47 WST 2010


On Mon, 17 May 2010, Matt Johnston wrote:
> Matt Didcoe noticed outgoing mail wasn't working right from some
> machines (perhaps just martello), turned out that martello
> was waiting to connect to ext-mx.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au on
> 130.95.13.15. I thought that was meant to be .13.12, I've
> changed it back now, and things seem working. Anyone know
> how it changed?
> 
> ucc.machines's date was
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26773 May 14 22:02 ucc.machines

That was me. Sorry. I remember doing so but not why... maybe I got 
confused about the IPs that were firewalled, or possessed by the devil, or 
something.

> The reason martello's using ext-mx rather than mailhost is
> that mailhost.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au has a MX record pointing to
> ext-mx. I think that is probably wrong, though won't change
> it now.

That sounds reasonable to fix.

[DAA]


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