[Mimedefang] Sendmail reverse DNS not making it to MIMEDefang

Jeff Rife mimedefang at nabs.net
Tue May 13 14:58:58 EDT 2008


A snippet from my maillog:

May 13 14:47:25 saber sendmail[14816]: NOQUEUE: connect from 
host.lightcore.net [204.9.124.194] (may be forged)
May 13 14:47:25 saber mimedefang.pl[8077]: filter_relay: 204.9.124.194; 
[204.9.124.194]
May 13 14:47:25 saber mimedefang.pl[8077]: filter_relay: 
'204.9.124.194' is black-listed
May 13 14:47:25 saber mimedefang.pl[8077]: filter_relay rejected host 
204.9.124.194 ([204.9.124.194])
May 13 14:47:25 saber sendmail[14816]: m4DIlPFi014816: Milter: connect: 
host=host.lightcore.net, addr=204.9.124.194, rejecting commands

Sendmail obviously is looking up 204.9.124.194 and getting the name 
(host.lightcore.net), but my logging in filter_relay isn't picking it 
up:

sub filter_relay
{
my ($ip, $hostname) = @_;

md_syslog('info', "filter_relay: $ip; $hostname");

...

}

Has anyone else seen this, or am I doing something wrong?

I'm running sendmail 8.14.1 and MD 2.61.


--
Jeff Rife | copy protection: n.  A class of methods for 
          | preventing incompetent pirates from stealing 
          | software and legitimate customers from using it. 
          | Considered silly. 
          |         -- Jargon File version 4.4.6 





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