On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Sascha E. Pollok wrote:
> here is some problem. Whenever I set a host_reject
> configuration-command to block SMTP traffic from a
> specific host (e.g. host_reject = 192.168.10.10)
> EXIM does also start to check reverse-DNS setups for
> every host that connects to the MTA. Why that?
You haven't really got
host_reject = 192.168.10.10
have you? You have got something like
host_reject = *.some.domain
or
host_reject = lsearch;/some/file
Those require the use of a host name, so Exim has to look it up. Read
the section on host lists.
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