unexpected DNS look ups being logged

Andy Pieters mailings at vlaamse-kern.com
Mon Nov 14 13:46:51 UTC 2005


Who sais its evolution?

You are running your own dns server, fair enough, are you also running your 
own email server?  In that case, the email server performs lookups to verify 
hostname of the sender.

HTH


Andy

On Sunday 13 November 2005 23:33, Tim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see things reported in logwatch that I don't expect.  For instance,
> named reports resolving addresses that are part of spams I'm receiving.
> However, I'm not using spam filtering, I'm not loading HTML with images
> that might contain web bugs (and these spams were plain text, anyway),
> so I didn't expect Evolution to go checking on the addresses.
>
> Anybody else see the same thing, or can explain it?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the public lists.

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