On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Duncan Bennett wrote:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1999-12-08 22:27:17 connection from [209.119.1.41] refused
> (209.119.1.41 does not match any IP address for lime.ease.lsoft.com)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
What this means is that Exim looked up the name from the IP address,
because of some requirement to find out the name - maybe you have some
wildcard setting in host_reject - and then, having found the name, it
did a forward lookup on it to double-check, and did not get back the
address it started with.
> I'm left to think that the problem must be with my Exim configuration
> or my DNS.
I tried setting
host_reject = *.rhubarb.custard
in order to force a name lookup, and then ran
exim -bh 209.119.1.41
which worked, producing this output
**** SMTP testing session as if from host 209.119.1.41
**** Not for real!
>>> host in host_lookup? no (option unset)
>>> looking up host name for 209.119.1.41
>>> IP address lookup yielded lime.ease.lsoft.com
>>> host in host_reject? no (end of list)
...
which shows that in this case, on my machine, the DNS looking up and
checking all seemed to work. Try running
exim -bh 209.119.1.41
and see what the output is.
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