Re: [Exim] no IP address found for host

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: Rossz Vamos-Wentworth
CC: exim
Subject: Re: [Exim] no IP address found for host
Rossz Vamos-Wentworth [8/15/2003 9:05 AM] :

> My mail log has 482 entires like this since last week:
>
> Aug 8 10:04:08 vife exim: 2003-08-08 10:04:08 no IP address found for host
> link.dsl.xmission.com
>
> Checking xmission.com for a web page reveals antispam software, so I assume it's
> an attempt by a spammer to advertise his anti-spam software. I'd just block him at
> the firewall, but the error message doesn't include any ip number for the original
> connection. Is it possible to get the IP in the logged message? How?


xmission.com is an ISP. A pretty clued one too.

Where's that connection coming from? Can you grab and netstat it?