Re: [Exim] failed to find host name from IP address

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Autor: Alan J. Flavell
Datum:  
To: Jochen Erwied
CC: Exim Mailinglist
Betreff: Re: [Exim] failed to find host name from IP address
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Jochen Erwied wrote:

> Saturday, May 04, 2002, 4:02:38 PM, you wrote:


[context re-instated:]

| Compare these log entries, for example (slightly anonymised)

|
| 2002-05-01 09:14:01 recipients from [xxx.250.207.66] refused (failed
| to find host name from IP address)
| 2002-05-01 09:15:51 recipients from sc8-a7-omp2.zzzz.net
| [yy.35.193.84] refused


> > Both have been rejected because they are locally blacklisted for
> > spamming. The second one looks up OK in the DNS, the first one
> > doesn't.
>
> Just for curiousity: Exim (4.04) didn't choke on the second?


I can't comment on that, as these results were from v 3.35.

Assuming this isn't just a misunderstanding about the way I anonymised
the entries, what kind of "choke" did you have in mind?

best regards