From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 25 19:25:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA09160 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:25:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (root@gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA09146; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:25:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA12771; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:25:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA21715; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:25:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA28621; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:25:10 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199711260325.TAA28621@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:25:10 -0800 In-Reply-To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" "Re: We will mail 4 U" (Nov 25, 5:14pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , tlambert@usr01.primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Subject: Re: We will mail 4 U Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Nov 25, 5:14pm, "Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: } Subject: Re: We will mail 4 U } } two relay hosts were the ns servers for amgen.com. } why are nameservers configured to relay mail? It appears they do double duty as firewall bastion hosts. Those two were filtering their incoming mail through smap from the TIS toolkit. ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> amgen.com mx ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 4, Auth: 10, Addit: 11 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; amgen.com, type = MX, class = IN ;; ANSWERS: amgen.com. 85695 MX 0 ns2.amgen.com. amgen.com. 85695 MX 20 relay2.uu.net. amgen.com. 85695 MX 20 relay1.uu.net. amgen.com. 85695 MX 10 ns1.amgen.com. The other relays that I saw were: osmail.onesource.com and osmail2.onesource.com, both running sendmail 8.8.4 and 8.8.7 gate1.gateway.com running smap. --- Truck