Re: Hello, My intro

2009-09-17 Thread Chris Johnson
the below is all still accurate. I got swamped with RL issues earlier this
year.
I'm planning to be around more this fall and would like to help some.
Just wanted to send a bump for this intro
:)


On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Chris Johnson j.chris.john...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi all,

 I've been lurking on the mailing list for a while and I finally
 registered for my fedora account today (username: chrisj)
 I'm interested in helping out as time permits. I got on irc once
 (lurking again) and haven't really logged in since. I'll try to make a
 few meetings after the holidays
 I'm planning to get my personal test systems setup soon. I just moved
 and still getting things straight at home. Bought a 750GB drive last
 night and will be installing F10 over the weekend. I had been running
 the U... distro and it's time to get back to the fedora/RH rpm way of
 doing things :-)

 I've used RedHat since before Fedora existed (I think 6 was the first
 one). Started as a hobbyist, 2 years. Then got a job as an admin and
 have been doing Linux admin and Cisco networks for the last 5 years.
 My current employer is a  Win shop so I just get to run the DNS,
 email, and network, but the network is 50 remote offices and 3
 different data centers in the midwest. I don't mind the Windows too
 much and can find my way around them, it's also kinda fun to get the
 Linux and MS products to play nice together. I've worked with a lot of
 different linux and OSS software products including: postfix,
 openldap, apache, bind, samba, mailman, pam, built some custom rpm's,
 etc. I use RHEL mostly at work and some fedora and Cent for testing
 (some suse, deb, and slackware in the past). I used to do lots of
 security firewall apliances with various linux distros (I was a big
 fan of LRP when it would fit on a floppy), most of this is now done
 with Cisco in my world. I can shell script pretty well and I've
 written several perl scripts in the last few years (dabbled in php but
 not enough to know it well). I've always been interested in python but
 don't have much if any exp with it. I also don't have much experience
 with SQL/DB or source control.

 I was looking at the FIGs and would be interested in the base sysadmin
 and sysadmin-noc for now while I figure out where everything is and
 what it does. I'm also interested in more info on the sysadmin-tools
 and sysadmin-web FIG.
 So, next just apply for the FIGs, keep lurking, ask some questions,
 show up for IRC meetings?

 Thanks all,
 --
 Chris Johnson
 ++
 j.chris.john...@gmail.com
 




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RE: transport maps for bastion

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Johnson
I'm new to the environment but have exp with  postfix @ $DAYJOB, so I
figure this might be something I can contribute to without sounding
too dumb, but if I do please take it easy. :)

Currently all mail which goes through bastion (for example all
@fedoraproject.org mail) then relays through mx.util.phx.redhat.com.

I'm not sure what bastion is but my question is why is the relay going
through mx.util.phx.redhat.com currently? I'm guessing bastion is the
host the @fedoraproject.org email is delivered on. (?) I can't find
mx.util.phx.redhat.com in public dns is there an ACL on the zone or is
this an /etc/host entry? Is the relay to mx.util.phx.redhat.com done
via a relayhost entry in main.cf? Also, where does mail go after
mx.util.phx.redhat.com, I'm guessing there's another hop before the
internet because of the dns failure.

Which are all redhat.com boxes. So our mail goes from there, to bastion
to expand out the aliases we have (ultimately) then back to
mx.util.phx.redhat.com to be relayed out to the rest of the world.

back to mx.util.phx.redhat.com? does it come from their or from the MX hosts?


For various reasons mail bound from bastion to @redhat.com addresses
probably needs to go through mx.util.phx.redhat.com, however, mail not
bound for @redhat.com shouldn't have to.

Just curious as the the various reasons you mention here.

I'm proposing using a postfix transport map which explicitly says:
.redhat.com  smtp:mx.util.phx.redhat.com
redhat.com  smtp:mx.util.phx.redhat.com
* :


I believe you could also remove the last line and if a relayhost is
used in main.cf comment it out. It should do the same thing since
postfix uses dns mx or A record for next hop delivery.


So my question for all you nice people is:

Can anyone see any problem with doing this? I've tested it out on a
different mail server I take care of and it works fine.

I would wonder if this is needed at all? why can't the redhat.com
domain go to the mx too? just curious. As long as redhat.com isn't one
of bastion's postfix mydestination I would expect everything to still
work and be a much easier config to change or troubleshoot later. /me
likes things as simple as possible :-)


PS. was there a meeting yesterday? I was planning on joining but had a
conf call scheduled and didn't see notes from the list.


JCJ

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Hello, My intro

2008-12-18 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi all,

I've been lurking on the mailing list for a while and I finally
registered for my fedora account today (username: chrisj)
I'm interested in helping out as time permits. I got on irc once
(lurking again) and haven't really logged in since. I'll try to make a
few meetings after the holidays
I'm planning to get my personal test systems setup soon. I just moved
and still getting things straight at home. Bought a 750GB drive last
night and will be installing F10 over the weekend. I had been running
the U... distro and it's time to get back to the fedora/RH rpm way of
doing things :-)

I've used RedHat since before Fedora existed (I think 6 was the first
one). Started as a hobbyist, 2 years. Then got a job as an admin and
have been doing Linux admin and Cisco networks for the last 5 years.
My current employer is a  Win shop so I just get to run the DNS,
email, and network, but the network is 50 remote offices and 3
different data centers in the midwest. I don't mind the Windows too
much and can find my way around them, it's also kinda fun to get the
Linux and MS products to play nice together. I've worked with a lot of
different linux and OSS software products including: postfix,
openldap, apache, bind, samba, mailman, pam, built some custom rpm's,
etc. I use RHEL mostly at work and some fedora and Cent for testing
(some suse, deb, and slackware in the past). I used to do lots of
security firewall apliances with various linux distros (I was a big
fan of LRP when it would fit on a floppy), most of this is now done
with Cisco in my world. I can shell script pretty well and I've
written several perl scripts in the last few years (dabbled in php but
not enough to know it well). I've always been interested in python but
don't have much if any exp with it. I also don't have much experience
with SQL/DB or source control.

I was looking at the FIGs and would be interested in the base sysadmin
and sysadmin-noc for now while I figure out where everything is and
what it does. I'm also interested in more info on the sysadmin-tools
and sysadmin-web FIG.
So, next just apply for the FIGs, keep lurking, ask some questions,
show up for IRC meetings?

Thanks all,
--
Chris Johnson
++
j.chris.john...@gmail.com


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