Re: reject_hosts not always working?

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Author: Chris Thompson
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: jhenders, exim-users
Subject: Re: reject_hosts not always working?
> > ispam.net is in the reject.hosts file. Yet here is an example I think
> > should have been caught by this but wasn't.
> >
> > 1997-05-26 18:57:41 0wWBW8-0006If-00 <= jim@???
> > H=relay5.ispam.net [207.124.161.54] U=root P=smtp S=2633
>
> Is "*.ispam.net" in the reject.hosts file? The partial match won't
> trigger for "relay5.ispam.net" otherwise.


But would even this work? "relay5.ispam.net" is just what is in the HELO
command; it doesn't forward-lookup in the DNS, nor does 207.124.161.54
backward-lookup in in-addr.arpa [the class C network involved appears to
be in the idci.net domain, whatever that is].

Chris Thompson               Cambridge University Computing Service,
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