Re: [Exim] Reverse DNS lookups

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Michael Jakscht
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Reverse DNS lookups
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Michael Jakscht wrote:

> it seems that exim 4.12 has not enough time to complete reverse DNS-lookups
> and therefore rejects messages with the following error:
>
> ========================================
> 2003-02-27 09:02:44 H=buster.nbg-hannover.de [62.181.135.129]
> F=<Mario.Gaertner@???> rejected RCPT
> <apanter@???>: reverse host lookup failed
> ========================================


No, that message is (presumably) from the ACL in your previous message.
It doesn't imply a timeout.

> So is it possible to "tune" the time exim can spend on an reverse
> DNS-lookup to a longer period than the standard time (how long is this by
> the way?)


RTFM dns_retrans and dns_retry, but I don't think this is your problem.

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