Author: Torsten Mueller Date: To: J Yunke CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] MySQL + "failed to find host name from IP address"
Hey,
in the archive i found:
exim -bh 217.106.231.250
to find out, on which point it is necessary to make a hostlookup.
... my 2 cents
Greetings Torsten
J Yunke schrieb: > ... > I get the pesky 'failed to find host name from IP address' message even
> when the IP is in the database, IF AND ONLY IF the ISP doesn't have
> reverse IP on the IP address. Else, it works fine.
>
> The only recommendation I could find was in Q0029 (attached below) which
> says to list IPs first. Fair enough...except the /etc/exim/hosts_allow
> contains ONLY IP ADDRESSES and the MySQL database query either returns the
> IP ADDRESS or no records, so there is never a host name involved.
>
