[Exim] Re: Problem with netmasks

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Re: Problem with netmasks
+++ Alex Blewitt [exim-users] <04/09/01 12:51 +0100>:
> I use exim 3.12 (8 Jun 2001) and had an interesting problem with
> netmasks recently; to prevent relaying, I had configured a netmask of:
> 194.203.158.80/4
> which is the subnet that we have connected to our outside network


A /4? D'you really mean a /4 (a /8 is 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 for
example ...). Or d'you mean 194.203.158.80 to 158.84?

Please do read up about cidr (and use one of the several CIDR calculators
available online / at the command line) before you use CIDR notation for
allowing relay :)

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Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin