On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Dave C. wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>
> > Since exim had to resolve the friendly_hosts, it appears that it enforced
> > reverse-DNS on even the friendly_nets. Once I removed "friendly_hosts"
> > from the configure line, relaying was permitted.
> >
> > Is my reasoning for my original problem correct?
>
>
> Which of the two files appeared first? I beleive this matters, and I
> beleive if you ensure that the IP addresses come FIRST, they will be
> permitted.. I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong....
You are correct. Exim processes the files in order. If the host file
came first, it would try to find a host name for any wildcard items in
that file, before moving on to the list of IP addresses.
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