At 12:56 PM 3/31/99 -0000, Russell Nelson wrote:
>I think he wants to know which IP address it will bind to. The answer
>is "whatever". Dan has been asked to change qmail-remote to bind to
>the IP address of the hostname part of the envelope sender, but he
>dismisses the possibility, claiming that it is is a frivial desire.
Well, maybe the implementation would be trivial and frivolous in his mind
(is that what frivial means?), but this feature could be useful nonetheless.
>From the logs:
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Connected to 199.246.67.190 but my name was rejected./Remote host said: 501
HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'web1.cheetahmail.com' rejected
from www.cheetahmail.com remote address [206.132.30.31]: Host name does not
match remote address.
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Why? Because the address associated with www is a virtual IP on the web1
server. I use virtual IPs all the time (it allows me to move services such
as web, DNS server , etc, around and implement failover mechanisms) and it
would be useful to be able to bind to the physical address only.
Yes, I know, making all the entries (for that machine) in my reverse DNS
table point to the same name would also solve the problem. I was just a
comment, not a criticism.
David.
