RE: [Exim] Opinions sought on new ignore_hosts option

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Author: Bernard Stern
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To: exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] Opinions sought on new ignore_hosts option
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:12:56 +0100 (BST) Philip Hazel wrote:

(...)

> (1) Default unset. Preserves the current behaviour.


> (2) Minimal: ignore_hosts = <; 127.0.0.1 ; ::1


> (3) Maximal:   ignore_hosts = <; 127.0.0.0/8 ; 10.0.0.0/8 ; \
>                                  192.168.0.0/16 ; 172.16.0.0/12 ; \
>                                  ::1 ; fe80::/10


I'd give my vote to minimal, as this kind of misconfig
is seen reasonnably often. Default unset would be ok,
though.

Regards,

Bernard Stern, SWITCH

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