Re: Reverse IP lookups

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Author: Sean Witham
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: Mark Baker, exim-users
Subject: Re: Reverse IP lookups


On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:

> At this site, we only do reverse lookups for local machines. I really
> don't want our log files to get even bigger by the addition of lots of
> copies of the string "unknown". That's why I went for the minimalist
> notation. Perhaps putting the ? first would be better?
>
>    ?helo.name [ip.address]

>
> Then in all forms, if there is a non-? alphameric character first, it is
> known to be verified.
>
>


How about a configurable string placed at the front. Included a
comment in the default configuration files with an exmaple of the
verbose string and use the short one by default. Now you can all ask
if you should have :

? helo.name [ip.address]

    or


? (helo.name) [ip.address]

--Sean



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