Autor: John W. Baxter Data: A: exim users Assumpte: Re: [exim] problems with host authentication (no IP address found
for host ...)
On 2/26/06 12:36 PM, "Giuliano Gavazzi" <dev+lists@???> wrote:
[Here, Giuliano is quoting me:] >> 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?
The built in does not handle certain failures the way we want to (or didn't
when we made the decision).
