Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Marc Sherman wrote:
>
>
>>>Here's a repost with excerpts from today's exim_mainlog file, un-edited:
>>>This entry is logged over 30,000 times per day in the exim_mainlog:
>>>2005-12-28 09:36:50 no IP address found for host
>>>smtp05.dc2.safesecureweb.com (during SMTP connection from NULL)
>>
>>The NULL is perplexing to me; that's up to Philip to answer, I guess.
>>Possibly an SMTP connection from localhost?
>
>
> No, it's a bug. Finally rose to the top of my list. Fixed in the next
> release - it should show the IP address. At least, I have fixed one
> circumstance that could do that; let's hope it's the same as the one you
> hit. It occurred if there was an error very early on in the connection,
> typically as a result of host_lookup, and looking up the IP address gave
> a host name that could not be looked up.
>
> Philip
>
Hmm.. I thought it was a 'feature' ;-)
Not positive, but the third line, below, added to /etc/hosts
(FreeBSD 4.1X) may be what 'satisfied' it.
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 0
Anyway - such annoying log entries ceased at once.
JFWIW....
Bill Hacker
