Re: [Exim] Accepting mail from hosts with no reverse DNS

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Greg Ward
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Accepting mail from hosts with no reverse DNS
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Greg Ward wrote:

> > 2002-06-18 07:37:32 connection from [196.26.82.66] refused (failed to
> > find host name from IP address)
>
> That is *not* the reason the connection was refused -- Exim is just
> telling you why it only logged the IP address, and no name.
>
> Are there any other adjacent log entries? They might tell you why the
> connection was refused.


Or use the -bh option (possibly with additional debugging) to find out
why Exim is refusing the connection.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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