At 9:41 +0000 2003/01/30, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:19:14PM +0000, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
>> I've just discovered that Exim is even better than I thought: a domain I
>> tried to send mail to had the one and only MX record set to IP address
>> 127.0.0.1. Exim rejected it:
>
>I hope that in your lookup hosts router (the one with driver=dnslookup),
>you also have a line (or lines):
>| ignore_target_hosts = 127.0.0.0/8 : \
>| 10.0.0.0/8 : \
>| 172.16.0.0/12 : \
>| 192.168.0.0/16
>
>The more people do this, the better.
>
and I would add zeroconf: 169.254.0.0/16 (not immensely sure about
the netmask, but I think it is that wide). [and what about IPv6?]
What would also be the more the better is an enforcement of helo
hostname correctness (oh no, he is at it again!), there is too much
.local and unqualified hostnames being sputteret (?) onto the
internet.
Giuliano
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