On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> This is what I put in my exim.conf (Exim ver 3.02):
>
> host_lookup = "!/var/mail/block/host_lookup-except : \
> !/var/mail/block/net_lookup-except : \
> 0.0.0.0/0"
>
> Does this have any chance of working? It appears to work when I test it,
> to the extent that 'exim -bh <ip_add_ress>' shows that the exception was
> located, but it also appears that the lookup if performed anyway.
What's in the files? If you have any wild-carded host names, it has to
do the lookup, in order to find the name to compare. Thus, putting
wild-carded names into host_lookup is a useless activity. You should
confine the entries to IP addresses.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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