[ILUG] Postfix rejecting mails that do not resolve.

Jason Corcoran jason.corcoran at activant.com
Wed Oct 6 09:16:41 IST 2004


Using xname as a DNS I have set up my own postfix and apache web server.
Every now and again I notice this in the postfix log ....

Oct  6 08:01:49 mail postfix/smtpd[6296]: warning: 69.42.113.178: 
address not listed for hostname wrkst-113-178.woodinternet.net

if I ping this name I get

 >ping wrkst-113-178.woodinternet.net
PING wrkst-113-178.woodinternet.net (69.42.111.5) from 192.168.0.2 : 
56(84) bytes of data.


So the ips do not match. The host name and ips vary, I am wondering if 
this is a relay attempt or a spammers attempt to mail me. Should I be 
configuring postfix to accept these non listed hostnames. A postconf -n
tells me that disable_dns_lookups = yes so I shouldn't be doing DNS lookups.

Any pointers ??

Thanks
Jason.

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