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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!decwrl!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!asjl
  2. Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
  3. Subject: Re: Inter-Network Mail Guide
  4. Message-ID: <BxEtIs.4z0@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
  5. From: Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton)
  6. Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:18:28 GMT
  7. Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin)
  8. References: <1992Nov5.024040.13063@kirk.bu.oz.au> <Bx9F6x.EK8@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <Bx9opq.36C@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU>
  9. Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
  10. Nntp-Posting-Host: bats.comp.vuw.ac.nz
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  13. In article <Bx9opq.36C@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU> marka@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU (Mark Andrews) writes:
  14. >Not all that strange. DSTO is Defence Science and Technology Organization.
  15. >I would expect them to prevent any unknow traffic from crossing their
  16. >routers.
  17.  
  18. I'd have thought that allowing email traffic through the routers
  19. wasn't exactly permitting "known" traffic. The choice of allowing SMTP
  20. and not ICMP packets is what seems strange.
  21.  
  22. I'd have thought they'd be better served by having an MX record for
  23. each of their hosts (NOT a wild card MX) which pointed to a small set
  24. of firewall machines.
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