[exim] ignore_target_hosts

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: exim-users
Subject: [exim] ignore_target_hosts
Has anyone investigated the operational effects of causing domains with
any abusive MX entries (such as 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1) to fail to verify?
For example, with the usual ignore_target_hosts settings the domain below
will verify OK because one of its MX hosts is valid. Perhaps it would be
better to fail to verify domains like this - though I'm not sure how to
achieve this without patching Exim.

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> mx frognet.net.returnreceipt.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61015
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      frognet.net.returnreceipt.com, type = MX, class = IN


;; ANSWER SECTION:
frognet.net.returnreceipt.com. 1d7h28m38s IN MX 5 frognet.net.returnreceipt.com.
frognet.net.returnreceipt.com. 1d7h28m38s IN MX 10 guardpuppy.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
frognet.net.returnreceipt.com. 1d7h28m38s IN NS guardpuppy.com.
frognet.net.returnreceipt.com. 1d7h28m38s IN NS copa.geek.net.au.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
frognet.net.returnreceipt.com.  1d7h28m38s IN A  0.0.0.0
guardpuppy.com.         1d7h28m38s IN A  193.114.233.33
copa.geek.net.au.       4h10m4s IN A    203.217.18.13


;; Total query time: 21 msec
;; FROM: cyan.csi.cam.ac.uk to SERVER: 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Mon May 16 10:53:26 2005
;; MSG SIZE sent: 47 rcvd: 211

Tony.
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