On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:39:58PM +0200, mouss wrote:
> >   (a) Match an IP address whose reverse DNS matches 'domain.tld'.
> 
> This can't be trusted. nobody can use this for access control.

Indeed.

> >   (c) Match an IP address which is listed as one of the results for an
> >       A-record lookup of 'doman.tld'.
> 
> You can exclude this by yourself: if I use a pcre (or regexp) map, would
> postfix try all possible strings that matchall the regular expressions,
> do a DNS lookup until it finds a match???

That argument doesn't follow. This isn't a pcre map, it's a DNS map.

> "matches domain.tld", means that the rDNS matches this. and rDNS is only
> used if it is "forward confirmed".

Thanks.

> choice 1: give all the IPs the same rDNS.
> choice 2: give each an rDNS in a specific subdomain

It's not under my control, unfortunately I can't do this.
It appears Postfix is inferior to Exim here :-(

> choice 3: use a script to generate a cidr map from the zone file, and
> run the script whenever the zone file is updated.

I suppose I'll have to hack something together, yes.

Thanks for your reply.

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