[Mimedefang] Adding support for learning our addresses

[David F. Skoll]

Philip Prindeville wrote:

> Too heavy weight.  Requires a fork/exec for each iteration.
> Easier to just do some ioctl()'s.

>From Perl?  But the whole thing's pretty silly anyway -- unless your
server is very unusual, you can hard-code its IP address(es) in your
filter.

[...]

>> Too many false-positives.  We own a measly 8 IP addresses where our
>> colo box sits.  If you block us because someone on our class C was bad,
>> that's unfair.

> And your farm facility doesn't allocate individual CIDR information for
> clients?

I'm not sure, actually... I never checked.  Let's see:

$ whois 206.191.13.82

OrgName:    Magma Communications Ltd.
[...]
NetRange:   206.191.0.0 - 206.191.63.255
CIDR:       206.191.0.0/18

Nope; I guess not.

--
David.