Re: backend_connect source address and config_servername

From: Ken Murchison (no email)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 14:54:12 EST

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    Bron Gondwana wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm working on setting up replication for our (FastMail.FM) new servers.
    >
    > One issue I've run in to is that our machines are set up as follows:
    >
    > 10.*: imap<$n>.internal
    > 66.111.4.*: imap<$n>.messagingengine.com
    >
    > Now we can argue all we like about whether the IMAP servers should have
    > an external network connection at all (it's pretty heavily firewalled,
    > but for various hysterical reasons I can't cut their direct outside
    > connection just yet.
    >
    > So - I'd very much prefer config_servername to contain
    > imap<$n>.messagingengine.com since that's what the world sees on the
    > connection string - but when I do that, backend_connect binds the
    > _source_ of its TCP connections to the external IP address, despite
    > being asked to make a connection to another 10.* address.

    Are you saying that you have sync_host set to imap<$n>.internal, but
    sync_client is connecting to imap<$n>.messagingengine.com?

    -- 
    Kenneth Murchison
    Systems Programmer
    Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
    Carnegie Mellon University
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