On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bernd Fondermann ha scritto: > > > > Serge Knystautas wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > So what I propose is that we setup a JAMES zone, and start to deploy > JAMES > > > > in that zone. That will be published in the DNS, and quite shortly > we > > > > should start to see a lot of connections coming to it as millions of > > > > spambots start to exercise JAMES for us. So we'll have a built-in > load test > > > > running, courtesy of the botnets, and we can just watch the build > work or > > > > crash in flames without any concern for lost messages. We will need > to be > > > > careful to initially disable the ability to send mail, and open it up > very > > > > carefully to make sure that we don't accidentally create a relay of > any > > > > kind. We could, for example, setup an SMTPS handler, and allow PMC > members > > > > to send via it, or alternatively, allow relaying only when the > connection > > > > comes from p.a.o. > > > > > > > > > > I see no reason to object to this proposal. If this helps give Noel > > > extra confidence in the codebase and it does not create extra burden > > > on other committers, why say anything but "sounds great"? > > > > > > > "extra confidence" :-) > > > > Sounds great, but going into testing with TRUNK essentially was proposed > for month. Now someone who torpedoed this approach and repeatedly said: > "Don't even look at this code" reiterates this. That really makes me happy, > but it sounded great to me months ago already. > > > > Now let's get this zone up and running. > > Maybe Norman can fill us in about when new zones will be available. IIRC, > at ApacheCon he said that the machine hosting the zones needs upgrades > before new zones can be added. > > > > Bernd > > > > +1 > > What domain can we host for the tests?
I would like to donate a domain, for example james-testing.org. I would be able to admin the nameserver according to our needs. > If we don't make this test installation the default MX for some domain and > we don't use some email address in public messages I don't expect botnets to > hit us so fast. Any ideas? put some mail addresses on a wiki page? Bernd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
