Re: [exim] annoyance with reverse lookup

Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
> At 2:54 pm +0200 on 2005/02/18, Andris Peize wrote:
>
>> on 4.44 I set
>> verify = reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok
>>
>> Then it first looks up dns, which is fine,
>>
>> Then it reduntantly calls gethostbyaddr() which returns EAGAIN and now
>> defer_ok seems like has no purpose at all
>
>
> why redundantly? Doesn't it do: A -> IP e poi IP -> A (I would say the
> other way around but the way you put it seems to indicate otherwise).
>
> g

Yes it does IP -> A via DNS, it defers, should become OK because of
defer_ok, and the bug is that it after that does gethostbyaddr() which
gives EAGAIN, which should be still OK because of defer_ok, but becomes
defer instead.

Andris