It is my understanding that is it neither necessary nor desireable to do a
remote host lookup on each incoming mail item. However, I have tried to
start qmail-smtpd under tcpserver with both the -H and -R options, as well
as a combination of both. Still, identd is trying to do a remote lookup on
each item. My os is Redhat 5.2 Linux.
29270 ? S 0:00 supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd tcpserver -v -HR -c40
-x /etc/tcprules.d/qmail-smtpd.cdb -u81 -g80 0 smtp rblsmtpd -b -r
relays.radparker.com rblsmtpd -b qmail-smtpd
A typical syslog entry:
Sep 19 05:30:43 mail identd[8469]: from: 208.14.212.3 ( isot.com ) for:
3173, 25
Sep 19 05:30:43 mail identd[8469]: Successful lookup: 3173 , 25 :
qmailr.qmail
My question: How do I disable this remote lookup, or is it
necessary/recommended to do the lookup?
Dennis Duval
