Re: [Exim] Re: Mail relay problems

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Author: Xander D Harkness
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CC: exim
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: Mail relay problems
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

>+++ Andy Coy [07/06/02 22:37 +0100]:
>
>
>>>I thought you had hit the nail on the head there so I added my long list of
>>>IP addresses into config file thus
>>>host_accept_relay =
>>>localhost:212.1.128.0/19:*.telinco.net:62.6.186.226:80.40/13:212.74.96.0/19
>>>212.159.128.0/18:62.64.128.0/19:212.139.32.0/19:212.139.128.0/17:213.123.76.0/23:62.7.125.0/24:62.7.126.0
>>>24:62.7.127.0/24:80.225/16
>>>
>>>
>
>Bloody hell. You really want to relay for all that IP space?
>
>suresh@frodo:~ cidr 80.40.0.0/13
>ip address..........: 80.40.0.0
>netmask.............: 255.248.0.0
>
>network address.....: 80.40.0.0
>broadcast address...: 80.47.255.255
>
>please wait while host addresses are validated...
>
>total host addresses: 524286
>
>and such.
>
>212.1.128.0/19 != 212.1.128.[0-19]
>
>You might be better off setting up AUTH
>
>    -srs

>

I think he might be quite serious - Tiscali seems to run most of this IP
space :-)

Kind of scary trying to stop spammers on a couple of million IPs.

route:        212.74.96.0 <http://geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?query=212.74.96.0&targetnic=auto>/19
descr:        Tiscali UK Limited
origin:       AS9105
notify:       hostmaster@???
mnt-by:       WOLUK-NOC
changed:      hostmaster@??? 20020429
source:       RIPE


###################

route:        212.139.128.0 <http://geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?query=212.139.128.0&targetnic=auto>/18
descr:        Tiscali UK Limited
origin:       AS9105
notify:       hostmaster@???
mnt-by:       TELINCO-RIPE-MNT
changed:      Daniel.cooper <http://geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?query=Daniel.cooper>@uk.tiscali.com 20011031
source:       RIPE


###############################


route:        80.40.0.0 <http://geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?query=80.40.0.0&targetnic=auto>/13
descr:        Tiscali UK Ltd (dial pool)
origin:       AS9105
notify:       hostmaster@???
notify:       routing@???
mnt-by:       TELINCO-RIPE-MNT
changed:      barry.titmarsh <http://geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?query=barry.titmarsh>@uk.tiscali.com 20011123
source:       RIPE



Kind regards
Xander