Re: [Exim] HELO reject when reverse DNS lookup fails - trivi…

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Author: Tom
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To: Paul Sheer
CC: exim-users
New-Topics: Re: [Exim] HELO reject when reverse DNS lookup fails - trivial patc h and new c onf option suggested
Subject: Re: [Exim] HELO reject when reverse DNS lookup fails - trivial patch and new c onf option suggested
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Paul Sheer wrote:

> Exim forces a lookup if the domain in the HELO is a local domain.
> (see spec.txt) This causes deliveries to fail from our
> dialup machines under the domain of the host, since our ISP does
> not support reverse lookups on the dynamic addresses assigned to
> dialup machines (these are 192.168.*.* addresses). This patch to
> host.c in the exim source translates IP's 192.168.*.* to host
> names 192.168.*.*.local.domain.


Why don't you just set up your DNS for 168.192.in-addr.arpa? I bet
plenty of other things will try to reverse resolve these IPs.

Tom