On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Bill Duncan wrote:
> For example, I might list "10.0.0.0/8" near the top of the file, and further
> down in the file I might have more specific subnets with examples in comments.
> Like "10.20.0.0/16" might be listed as a separate item with comments describing
> why.
>
>
> I reference the file like this in the config file:
>
> HOST_REJECT = /usr/exim/etc/reject_host.txt
That won't work. Read up about the difference between file inclusions
like that and lookup types. For a file like that, Exim reads
sequentially. Therefore, the 10.0.0.0/8 will always take precedence.
With a large number of entries, you may be better off using some kind of
lookup, e.g. net-cdb, but with several different network sizes, you'll
have to use several lookups, e.g.
host_reject = net16-cdb;/the/file : net-8;/the/file : ...
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