Pkg exim4 users - Sep 2006 - blacklisting not working despite following debian documentation

Hi there,

I am trying to stop a domain name [rima-tde.net] from sending spam to my
server. I am using the document /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/default-acl to
set up my exim4.conf.template. It says;

/etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist contains a list of IP addresses,
networks and host names whose messages will be denied with the error
message "locally blacklisted". This is a full exim 4 host list. Again,
negative items can be used here, and there is also an explicit
whitelist read in from /etc/exim4/local_host_whitelist, and whitelist
entries override blacklistings.

So my /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist looks like this:

rima-tde.net
80.25.220.24

Yet when I do this to fake a SMTP connection;

exim -bh 80.25.220.24

The blacklisting fails. Here is the relevant snippet from the debugging
output:
>>> check hosts = ${if
exists{/etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist}{/etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist}{}}
>>> no IP address found for host rima-tde.net (during SMTP connection
from
24.red-80-25-220.staticip.rima-tde.net (localhost) [ 80.25.220.24])
LOG: no IP address found for host rima-tde.net (during SMTP connection from
24.red-80-25-220.staticip.rima-tde.net (localhost) [
80.25.220.24])
>>> host in "/etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist"? no (failed to
find IP address
for rima-tde.net)
>>> deny: condition test failed
Does anyone know why the blacklist is failing?

Thank you,

    Jeremiah
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:17:21PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster
wrote:
> I am trying to stop a domain name [rima-tde.net] from sending spam to my
> server. I am using the document /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/default-acl to
> set up my exim4.conf.template. It says;
> 
> /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist contains a list of IP addresses,
> networks and host names whose messages will be denied with the error
> message "locally blacklisted". This is a full exim 4 host list.
Again,
> negative items can be used here, and there is also an explicit
> whitelist read in from /etc/exim4/local_host_whitelist, and whitelist
> entries override blacklistings.
> 
> So my /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist looks like this:
> 
> rima-tde.net
> 80.25.220.24
This blacklists the host rima-tde.net. 80.25.220.24 resolves to
24.red-80-25-220.staticip.rima-tde.net, which is no exact match.

If you want to blacklist everything that ends in .rima-tde.net, use
*.rima-tde.net in the host list.

Greetings
Marc

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Thanks very much Marc.

On 9/13/06, Marc Haber <mh+pkg-exim4-users@zugschlus.de>
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:17:21PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> > I am trying to stop a domain name [rima-tde.net] from sending spam to
my
> > server. I am using the document
/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/default-acl
> to
> > set up my exim4.conf.template. It says;
> >
> > /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist contains a list of IP addresses,
> > networks and host names whose messages will be denied with the error
> > message "locally blacklisted". This is a full exim 4 host
list. Again,
> > negative items can be used here, and there is also an explicit
> > whitelist read in from /etc/exim4/local_host_whitelist, and whitelist
> > entries override blacklistings.
> >
> > So my /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist looks like this:
> >
> > rima-tde.net
> > 80.25.220.24
>
> This blacklists the host rima-tde.net. 80.25.220.24 resolves to
> 24.red-80-25-220.staticip.rima-tde.net, which is no exact match.
>
> If you want to blacklist everything that ends in .rima-tde.net, use
> *.rima-tde.net in the host list.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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>
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