Hi all,
I just found the following unusual message in my Exim logs:
2009-06-27 21:14:58 host name alias list truncated for 69.10.169.230
Curious, I did a DNS lookup on that IP:
chris@top ~ $ host 69.10.169.230 | wc -l
86
chris@top ~ $ host 69.10.169.230 | head -5
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
230.169.10.69.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer heavenlydonut.com.
230.169.10.69.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer pitrivertribe.org.
230.169.10.69.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer shastawebmail.com.
230.169.10.69.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer vidalvineyard.com.
Looks like a spammer to me :)
Luckily, Exim provides a way to match senders like this:
defer
set acl_c_ptr_count = ${reduce {${lookup dnsdb{>: \
ptr=$sender_host_address}}} {0} {${eval:$value+1}}}
condition = ${if >{$acl_c_ptr_count}{4}}
message = Too many PTR records ($acl_c_ptr_count)
This matches any host with more than four PTR records. I based the reduce
operation on the one in the manual.
[
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch11.html#SECTexpcond]
Although this is pretty ugly. I don't suppose anyone wants to implement a
"count" operation to count the number of items in a list? Or would accept
a patch for same?
Cheers, Chris.
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