(forw) Re: [leafnode-list] texpire causes network activity?

[Matthias Andree <mandree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was too stupid to hit the right keys. To not mess with people's spam
filters, I'm forwarding my own message, sorry for the broken
in-reply-to: chain. 

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:32:49 +0200
From: Matthias Andree <mandree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [leafnode-list] texpire causes network activity?
Message-ID: <19990721003249.D7085@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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* Mark Brown (broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [1999-07-20 14:58]:
> It may be caused not by texpire but by something that happens after
> texpire has run - for example, if the output from texpire is mailed
> instead of /dev/nulled then it is likely that the MTA will be doing
> reverse DNS lookups at some point (particularly if it is sendmail).

Any MTA will do at least CNAME, usually also A, MX and possibly PTR lookups. 

I still suggest finding out what uses that
127.0.0.2 IP that the original log showed DNS PTR requests for. 

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