Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Six days ago I discovered that one of the Debian system > administrators had made a deliberate and highly unusual > configuration change which predictably broke mail from or via master > to:
Err, no. Mail was _already_ bouncing, but after reaching the retry maximum. The change did not change the end result, only when it happened. > No-one had contacted me, or anyone else affected. The change was made roughly less than 24 hours before your first post to debian-devel. There wasn't actually all that much time to contact you in. > but in any case immediately I found out about the situation I > arranged matters so that master should no longer have any difficulty > talking to chiark. Err, no you haven't. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:39:36 +0000, you've asked chiark users to individually change their config to ensure chiark won't DoS master. Until it's confirmed that all those users have done so, it's not fair to say master will not have any difficulty talking to chiark. And this still relies on per-user config rather than being a global change. Which means the next time a chiark user gets a debian.org account but neglects to perform the necessary incantation, master will once again be DoSed by chiark. > I also immediately notified debian-admin of these facts and have not had: Err, no you didn't. You mailed debian-devel, and THREE DAYS LATER mailed debian-admin. That is not immediate. > * Correction of the broken configuration on master [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep chiark /etc/exim4/exim4.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ And it's been like that for several days. > * An apology for the lack of communication or a promise to do better Speaking of doing better, could you please actually fix chiark? Because it's STILL firewalling master.... > This situation is intolerable and must be rectified forthwith. With all due respect, your attitude is intolerable and should be rectified forthwith. > If the Debian system administrators are too busy to deal with this > then I would be happy to help. No thanks. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]