Re: [Exim] no IP address found for host

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Author: Rossz Vamos-Wentworth
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To: 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?


I got lucky and was able to netstat them at the right moment (the hits come exactly
every 20 minutes so I was able to narrow the time down faily well). The ip address
is definitely xmission: 166.70.205.185. I'll email them and ask them to fix their mail
server.

Rossz