Re: [Exim] Question on DNS lookups

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Autor: Tabor J. Wells
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A: stewartj
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Question on DNS lookups
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 07:34:51PM -0700,
stewartj@??? <stewartj@???> is thought to have said:

> We're doing DNS lookups for inbound and outbound mail [there's not a lot
> of it, so it's not much of a performance hit].
>
> One domain responsible for much of the mail traffic is using many-to-many
> NAT, and they don't do DNS for the public side of the NAT [ie, looking up
> 123.123.123.123 doesn't generate name.blah.tld].
>
> Is there a way to exclude this particular domain from DNS lookups by IP address?
> Exim gets the proper public IP addresses from this domain, it just can't look them
> up to verify.
>
> Sorry if this has been asked and answered previously, I couldn't find anything in the
> FAQ.


It's not in the FAQ but is in the documentation (The Exim Specification
found in your source archive or on one of the Exim websites)

The option is "host_lookup"

host_lookup = ! 123.123.123.123 : *

will do what you want.

Tabor

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