Virus Sent From My Subnet

[Julian Field]

At 15:56 23/09/2002, you wrote:
> > >Will this be a possible config option in version 4?  This does solve the
> > >problem quite nicely.
> >
> > Is it really worth making an extra config item for it? Why not just do it
> > for all the "notices"? It doesn't get sent to users, only sysadmins, so a
> > bit of extra info shouldn't do any harm.
>
>I just realized something.  Sendmail does a reverse dns lookup on all
>connections.  If the virus originated in any of my IP pool's it will have my
>reverse DNS lookup in it.  I can just search for that.

Ho hum. It's written now :-)
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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