On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Rasputin wrote:
> I add 'host.dyndns.org' to a hostlist I will accept mail from, but
> Exim seems to reverse lookup the hostlist to decide if a sender is
> valid - which doesnt help in this case...
Have you checked using -d -bh? If you have something like
hostlist = host.dyndns.org
Exim should use a forward lookup to find the IP address of that host,
then compare it with the IP address of the calling host. However, if you
use
hostlist = *.dyndns.org
Exim has to do a reverse lookup.
> i.e. if a host a.net is listed, which resolves to 1.2.3.4, then
> accept mail from 1.2.3.4
That should work that way. Check it out using the debugging facilities.
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