Re: [exim] problems with host authentication (no IP address …

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Author: Giuliano Gavazzi
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] problems with host authentication (no IP address found for host ...)

On 26 Feb 2006, at 05:12, John W. Baxter wrote:

> Here, we have elected to relax the requirement for the purpose of
> flagging
> "suspicious servers," accepting any result from reverse lookup as less
> suspicious than no result. We do that with a Python daemon which
> follows
> the rules we want to follow in the case of lookup failures, since Exim
> doesn't.


is there a reason why you cannot use the built-in dnsdb lookup
(having also set
dns_check_names_pattern to the empty string, for good measure) or you
cannot
satisfy your requirements even using that?

Giuliano