Not quite. The connection was from 196.7.177.58 claiming to be ecmss.org.za
(denoted, I believe, by the fact the host name is in parentheses).
If you try nslookup 196.7.177.58 you'll see that it fails. If, however, you
lookup ecmss.org.za it yields the IP address 196.7.177.54
Try a lookup of that IP address and you get:
Name: Shane.compusys.iafrica.com
Address: 196.7.177.54
Might be worth checking out who looks after the DNS for ecmss.org.za and for
the 177.7.196.in-addr.arpa. domain
Regards,
Paul Walsh
Senior Systems Programmer, Information Services,
University of Central England, BIRMINGHAM B42 2SU, UK
Tel: +44 (0)121 331 5708 Fax: +44 (0)121 356 2875
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marius Vincent [mailto:mvincent@elcb.co.za]
> Sent: 11 May 2000 07:22
> To: Exim-Users
> Subject: [Exim] refused relay
>
>
>
>
> Hi
>
> Just what exactly does this error mean?
>
> 2000-05-09 14:11:42 refused relay (host) to <root@???> from
> <pieterg@???
> > H=(ecmss.org.za) [196.7.177.58] (failed to find host name
> from IP address)
>
>
> failed to find host name from ip address??
>
> But it found it??
>
> Thanx
>
> Marius Vincent
> Technical
> ELCB Information Services
>
>
>
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