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Author: David Woodhouse
Date:  
To: Marc Perkel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] This might be a useful spam catching trick - Improved
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 12:29 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> # Tag message with sender's IP nameserver record.
> # This can be processed with Spam Assassin
> # Does IP NS lookup (W.X.Y.Z) on Z.Y.X.in-addr.arpa and Z.Y.in-addr.arpa


Breaks with classless reverse DNS delegation. See RFC2317.

OOI is Exim going to successfully look up reverse DNS of the form

 Z.Y.X.W.in-addr.arpa        IN CNAME Z.0/25.Y.X.W.in-addr.arpa
 Z.0/25.Y.X.W.in-addr.arpa    IN PTR somehost.example.com.


Would the default dns_check_names_pattern prohibit successful lookup of
the CNAME target above, or is it not applied to interim results?

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