Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Source IP for VCS commit notifications

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi Michael,

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 05:19:43PM -0400, Michael J. Flickinger wrote:
> On 07/31/2011 05:01 PM, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >At Gna! the -commits mailing lists
> >(in particular, address@hidden)
> >use an IP-based restriction to prevent SPAM:
> >only known sender IP addresses are accepted
> >(in particular, Gna! et Savannah).
> >
> >Today I received the message below which indicated a change in
> >configuration: the source IP appears to be 140.186.70.72
> >(vcs.savannah.gnu.org) rather than the previous 140.186.70.51.
> >
> >Do you confirm?
> 
> Yes.

OK, I confirm I applied the change on the Gna mail server.


> >Incidentally, I'm curious on why you moved away from the mail
> >smarthost on 'internal' :)  It used to centralize all the mail
> >aliasing.
> >
> 
> Yes, some email providers flagged mail sent from the smarthost as
> span, since the internal.in.sv.gnu.org domU had a 10.1.0.101 for an
> IP address.

I don't see how that is possible?  Big mail servers are often within
an internal, DMZ'd network.


> It was easiest to just setup mail on vcs.

Btw, I see that the maintenance wiki is down, and so are the
Munin&Cacti on savannah.gnu.org:8080.

-- 
Sylvain