Author: OpenMacNews Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] lmtp delivery to cyrus store over unix socket requires
/etc/hosts.allow entry. why?
hi,
Tony Finch wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, OpenMacNews wrote:
>> if there's a check you can suggest i can run to help clarify, happy to
>> do so ...
>
> Not a trivial one or I would have done it myself :-)
well, i didn't want to presume ... you could be 'occupied' at a pub, or sumthin' ;-)
> The thing to do is to
> write something to call getpeername() on a connected unix domain socket
> and print the result.
>
>>> 0.0.0.0 is a synonym for localhost.
>> clear. just odd to me that they'd use 0.0.0.0, and that the "ususal"
>> 127.0.0.1 or 'localhost' entries in hosts.allow are simply
>> infeffectual/ignored.
>
> 0.0.0.0 would make sense if the socket address were unset or incorrectly
> set.
hmmm ... food for thought while i read-up. sounds like it's worth posting on info-cyrus, too.
thx!
cheers,
richard
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