Re: [exim] verification of Rdns

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Author: Viktor Dukhovni
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] verification of Rdns
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 08:53:13PM +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:

> Jim Pazarena <exim@???> (Mo 12 Okt 2015 17:22:40 CEST):
> > I use exim to verify rdns.
> > It occasionally determines a failure which I cannot 'prove'.
> > Not with nslookup. not with dig.
>
> How do you try to prove it? Where do you see that failure? In the logs?


The O/S is also relevant. Some *BSD systems return hard failures
from getnameinfo() and/or gethostbyaddr() even when the underlying
DNS lookup tempfailed.

-- 
    Viktor.