Re: [exim] Rejecting connections based on IP range.

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Evil Ernie
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Rejecting connections based on IP range.
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Evil Ernie wrote:

> I'm trying to reject certain connections based upon the IP range they're in.
>
> Most of the time it works fine. But I'm still seeing email being delivered
> despite the range being listed there.


Do you have any accept clauses before the deny clause?

> Is there a more efficent method of comparing IP's to ranges or is there some
> other problem/solution?


You can use the net24- prefix on a search type keyword (e.g. net24-dbm is
mentioned in the spec) if all your ranges are the same size. It gets
painful if they have variables sizes.

Tony.
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