On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:12 -0600, Russell Wilton wrote: > I run Exim 4.52 on RedHat Ent Linux 4.6 > > I am implementing Spamhaus DNS block lists and have set up my own rbl > DNS server > for the purpose, as required by our volume of mail. We have set our > main DNS servers > to forward requests for the dnsbl zone to my new rbl DNS server, but we > are having difficulty > meeting Spamhaus' requirement that we restrict access to only our own > machines. We > have a fairly complicated DNS setup and our DNS expert says he has been > unable to > find a way to restrict forwarding without breaking something else. > > It occurs to me that if there was some option for the dnslists condition > that would let me > specify the DNS server to use, I could scrap the forwarding and just > restrict access to > the rbl DNS server to only my mail systems. I have read the docs fairly > closely but > I don't see any mention of this type of functionality. Am I missing > something? Is there > some other way to do this? Any pointers greatly appreciated. > > -- > Russell D. Wilton E Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Info Tech Systems Analyst Voice: (403) 329-2525 > University of Lethbridge FAX: (403) 382-7108 > 4401 University Drive Lethbridge, Alberta, CANADA T1K 3M4 > >
You could simply create an A record like "MailServer1-rbl.example.com" that points to your RBL DNS server and just use it from the exim dnsbl ACL. You may not need to do any forwarding at all. Jeff -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
