Re: [Exim] RBL and interface used for queries

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Autor: Daniel Einspanjer
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Ugh.. Does that mean if my mail server can't use my standard DSL account DNS
servers hosted by Concentric/XO? If so, I'm going to have to get a hop on it
to get my own DNS server set up in time..
-- Daniel Einspanjer, daniel-ml@??? on 07/27/2001


On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:01:09 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Pettersson wrote:
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>On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Oliver von Bueren wrote:
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>> Good day.
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>> As the RBL access from maps get's ACL'ed and only the defined IP
>>-Adresses can query, how do I get exim to use an IP address for the
>>DNS queries other that the primary host interface? The situation on
>>my server is as follows:
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>> basehost.domain.com        192.168.10.100  ... some other addresses...
>> mail.domain.com                192.168.10.104

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>> The primary host address in this example is the .100 one, but all
>>mail is handled through the .104, which is also the one allowed
>>for RBL queries. I've seen the configuration item
>>local_interfaces, but the description is that this "only" defines
>>the listening addresses for smtp traffic. Has this also some
>>influence in which address is used for the dns lookups?
>>
>AFAIK, the rbl-checks goes through your normal resolver, so either
>get your nameserver registered with maps, or, if you run a caching
>nameserver on the exim host, tell the nameserver which interface to
>bind to.
>(I haven't studied the source, so i could be totally wrong here)
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>//Ajje
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