Re: [EXIM] IP spoofing

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Author: Marilyn Davis
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To: J.Goldberg
CC: marilyn, exim-users, zapa
Subject: Re: [EXIM] IP spoofing

>
> On Sat, 8 May 1999, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>
> > First there is a shocking number of hosts sending mail without proper
> > reverse (PTR) lookups. So there are legitimate, but misconfigured,
> > mailhubs for which you can't map from IP address to any domain name.
>
> I just checked yesterday's logs on one hub and found that 729 messages
> were from such hosts, although often just a few such hosts produced a
> number of such messages.


That's ok, I think. We want to go the other direction, from domain to
ip address.

Marilyn


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