Re: [exim-dev] $host_lookup_deferred=1 and $sender_host_name…

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著者: Philip Hazel
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To: B. Johannessen
CC: exim-dev
題目: Re: [exim-dev] $host_lookup_deferred=1 and $sender_host_name not empty
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, B. Johannessen wrote:

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> A looked up name is accepted only if it leads back to the original IP
> address via a forward lookup. If either the reverse or the forward
> lookup fails to find any data, or if the forward lookup does not yield
> the original IP address, $sender_host_name remains empty, and
> $host_lookup_failed is set to ?1?.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The way I understand the above paragraph, $sender_host_name will remain
> empty unless both the reverse and forward lookup succeeds, *and* the
> forward lookup yields the original IP address. This understanding does
> not agree with observed behavior (exim-snapshot-2006-10-16), as the
> following ACL fragment/log lines shows:



> I would consider this a bug either in Exim itself of the Exim
> specification. I'll leave it to whoever wrote the relevant
> code/documentation to figure out which :-)


That has to be me. It's a bug in the code, because the documentation
also says this:

    Looking up a host's name from its IP address consists of more than
    just a single reverse lookup. Exim checks that a forward lookup of
    at least one of the names it receives from a reverse lookup yields
    the original IP address. If this is not the case, Exim does not
    accept the looked up name(s), and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
    Thus, being able to find a name from an IP address (for example, the
    existence of a PTR record in the DNS) is not sufficient on its own
    for the success of a host name lookup. If the reverse lookup
    succeeds, but there is a lookup problem such as a timeout when
    checking the result, the name is not accepted, and
    $host_lookup_deferred is set to "1". See also $sender_host_name.



> --- host.c-orig Sat Nov 18 00:22:45 2006
> +++ host.c-new  Sat Nov 18 00:23:22 2006
> @@ -1792,6 +1792,7 @@
>       {
>       HDEBUG(D_host_lookup) debug_printf("temporary error for host name 
> lookup\n");
>       host_lookup_deferred = TRUE;
> +    sender_host_address = NULL;
>       return DEFER;
>       }


Er, that should be sender_host_name = NULL !

I will shortly commit a patch with this fix in it, so it will be in
tonight's snapshot.

Philip

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Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.