-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Am Fr den 12. Okt 2012 um 12:33 schrieb James Mills: > I'm seeing messages in my mainlog when hosts on my own LAN connect to exim: > > no IP address found for host eeprobe.euroele.local (during SMTP > connection from [192.168.3.55]) [...] > However, I can do a forward lookup using dig on eeprobe.euroele.local and it > resolves to a single 'A' > record 192.168.3.55 and a reverse lookup on 192.168.3.55 yields a single > 'PTR' 192.168.3.55. > > So why on earth is Exim saying no IP address found for host > eeprobe.euroele.local?
I suppose due your DNS is wrongly configured. A reverse lookup of an IP must resolve to a name, not the IP itself. What gives the following commands: host eeprobe.euroele.local host 192.168.3.55 Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen <[email protected]> Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753 62B3 79D0 B06F 4E20 AF1C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQGcBAEBCgAGBQJQeWPIAAoJEKZ8CrGAGfasZ8YL/1y21q9FeQGkCKBOHMSrhUsn lVx36DNwP8mCDt/Udd3HZ8PZpzIqoI3Kbf/MMdB3xI21aEZwUKOfo9IieNvmtESi WW5NC/45SVsQA5V9DhbSqBQO9iuWMWx+ivPIsYH9rCzckHz4sMYgyFV6K04dZElf p7aezYgRh0sX5rk2N7DUU1P6oPodafWVojjSBrxb+4pPpsW0gWLO6rhyt6Ss9QzU 1n0JLAKAhiCI/0y+cpeDDMpWO0+JXLWl5zbMqbmmjyWapf0YGlWnAkCCyKedWdSr HJWQOfkC1iwWdW20B5hZqkMcxWXp7DhdQi3Ii41B6XYgxG9XyaDqe0U5cF5tui6e VqidIlnxsWmB4qkQRrkbnGTkeLROXoB480YMlFShT9k2FRt3lY51N7X4qCtUb0PV pGtk3tDWeZE56Fsh43V0wxBqNXVofUVc2mcK+GtewdoJaeT/1qlPk07Pz2GrBiuh CMPQwiyOtZ5Re3U4GhNjazWZcQFiLa7MnaF4AH20VQ== =xbHw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ## List details at https://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/
