On 06-Aug-99 Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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.
net_lookup-except has addresses of the form:
123.456.478.0/24
467.689.245.0/24
host_lookup-except looks like this:
123.478.345.8
445.267.298.4
thanks
--
Andrew
