Re: [exim] Blacklist works strange

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Author: Dave Lugo
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Blacklist works strange
dnsblists appears to be a list of DNSBL Blacklists,
not domains that you don't want to accept mail from.

breakthru.com has a wildcard DNS record *.breakthru.com,
which is why adding that domain to dnsblists will result
in all email being rejected.


On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, James Brown wrote:
>
> FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE exim-4.72
>
> I included in my '/usr/local/etc/exim/dnsblists' some domains in the
> next format:
>
> shc.org
> bluewin.ch
> breakthru.com
>
> and had the next result:
>
> "H=moria.csail.mit.edu (moria.seul.org) [128.31.0.34]
> F=<owner-or-talk@???> rejected RCPT <user@???>:
> rejected because 128.31.0.34 is in a black list at breakthru.com\n" in
> my /var/log/exim/rejectlog
>
> But the ip-address of 128.31.0.34 is not belong to 'breakthru.com':
> dig -x 128.31.0.34
> 34.0.31.128.in-addr.arpa. 1800    IN    PTR    moria.csail.mit.edu.

>
> So, that blacklisting had as a result blocking the mail which I didn't
> want to block.
> What I did wrong or is there a bug in my version of an exim?
>
>


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