Re: [Exim] failed to find hostname from IP problem

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Author: Steve Haslam
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] failed to find hostname from IP problem
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:11:56PM +0300, Svetoslav Alexandroff wrote:
> 550 relaying to webmaster@somehost prohibited by administrator (failed to
> find host name from IP address)
>
> This is very annoying, since I have explicitly allowed relaying for the
> specified host, but due to lack of DNS communication the IP cannot be
> resolved. Is there a way to disable this feature (resolving IPs to names)? I
> read almost the entire exim documentation but could not find anything on
> that topic.


addendum... you can set host_lookup to be a list of IPs to lookup the
hostname for, instead of the default "*" (all hosts).


SRH
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