[EXIM] BUG: exim 2.04 (2.03) quitting with inconsistant DNS

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Author: John Horne
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To: exim-users
Subject: [EXIM] BUG: exim 2.04 (2.03) quitting with inconsistant DNS
On 02-Oct-98 at 15:30:49 Matthew Frost wrote:
>
> Your workaround described above explains why I don't see this
> behaviour on certain machines (they never do lookups as you say)...
>
> Setting up a test host with reverse but not forward:
>
> %exim -bh 194.217.125.254
>
> **** SMTP testing session as if from host 194.217.125.254
> **** Not for real!
>
>>>> looking up host name for 194.217.125.254
>>>> IP address lookup yielded eximtest.frost.net
> Segmentation fault
>
> Every time.
>

Sorry but I haven't been following this too closely, but under Solaris
2.6/Exim 2.04 I got:

exim -bh 194.217.125.254

**** SMTP testing session as if from host 194.217.125.254
**** Not for real!

>>> looking up host name for 194.217.125.254
>>> IP address lookup yielded eximtest.frost.net
>>> no IP address found for eximtest.frost.net
>>> failed to get host name for 194.217.125.254 in verify_check_host:

returning FALSE
>>> looking up host name for 194.217.125.254
>>> IP address lookup yielded eximtest.frost.net
>>> no IP address found for eximtest.frost.net
>>> failed to get host name for 194.217.125.254 in verify_check_host:

returning TRUE
>>> RBL lookup: 254.125.217.194.rbl.maps.vix.com


Surely the returning of FALSE and then TRUE can't be right (or is that the
point?).

John.

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