dnsreport error - Acceptance of domain literals

[fuzzie]

After the update last night, I get this error on dnsreport.com under the MAIL heading:


FAIL Acceptance of domain literals ERROR: One or more of your mailservers does not accept mail in the domain literal format (user@[0.0.0.0]). Mailservers are required RFC1123 5.2.17 to accept mail to domain literals for any of its IP addresses.

domain.com's postmaster@[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] response:
>>> RCPT TO: <postmaster@[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]>
<<< 550-Host cpe-66-189-58-123.ma.charter.com (www.DNSreport.com) [66.189.58.123] is not permitted
550-to relay through host.domain.com.
550-Perhaps you have not logged into the pop/imap server in the last 30 minutes.
550-You may also have been rejected because your ip address
550-does not have a reverse DNS entry.
550 relaying to prohibited by administrator


Is this bad?
I talked to at least one other Cpanel user who has the same problem.
Chuck

[fuzzie]

This resolved itself last night with the update, thanks.

[Website Rob]

Not sure why you say that, Chuck? Error msg. still shows the same with DNSReport - same as mine. Apparently this is a Cpanel specific situation as I've checked on other sites and they do not show this error. Some say the error doesn't matter, but I'm not sure I would agree with them.

[SouthernWeb]

It is an EXIM config setting.

Go to /etc/exim.conf and look for the following:

# If you want to accept mail addressed to your host's literal IP address, for
# example, mail addressed to "user@[111.111.111.111]", then uncomment the
# following line, or supply the literal domain(s) as part of "local_domains"
# above.

# local_domains_include_host_literals

Remove the # from #local_domains_include_host_literals and restart exim.

[fuzzie]

Don't know why, but the error was gone, then it was back....

But the above fixed it!

Thanks a ton.

[Website Rob]

I can only wonder why, DarkOrb decided to make this change for v6? As I use DNSReport quite frequently, I know this error was not showing up before. Hopefully they will provide an explaination or once again, follow RFC 1123 5.2.17 by default and save us having to manually change everytime.

[LordJMann]

I did the above but I got an error:

Exim configuration error in line 124:
main option "local_domains_include_host_literals" unknown

All I did was remove the # from the front of it.

From the result of that WHM news doesnt load and all services fail when the server is rebooted. Why isn't this option working?

# If you want to accept mail addressed to your host's literal IP address, for
# example, mail addressed to "user@[111.111.111.111]", then uncomment the
# following line, or supply the literal domain(s) as part of "local_domains"
# above.

local_domains_include_host_literals

[isputra]

Originally posted by SouthernWeb
It is an EXIM config setting.

Go to /etc/exim.conf and look for the following:

# If you want to accept mail addressed to your host's literal IP address, for
# example, mail addressed to "user@[111.111.111.111]", then uncomment the
# following line, or supply the literal domain(s) as part of "local_domains"
# above.

# local_domains_include_host_literals

Remove the # from #local_domains_include_host_literals and restart exim.

I use above step and i have error message when i restart exim :
--------------------------------
Dec 8 20:16:44 orange exim: exim shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:45 orange exim: antirelayd shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:45 orange exim: spamd shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:46 orange exim: exim shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:46 orange exim: antirelayd shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:46 orange exim: spamd shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:47 orange exim: exim shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:47 orange exim: antirelayd shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:47 orange exim: spamd shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: 2003-12-08 20:16:48 Exim configuration error in line 127: Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: main option "local_domains_include_host_literals" unknown Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: exim startup failed Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: exim startup succeeded Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: 2003-12-08 20:16:48 Exim configuration error in line 127: Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: main option "local_domains_include_host_literals" unknown Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: exim startup failed Dec 8 20:16:49 orange exim: antirelayd startup succeeded Dec 8 20:16:53 orange exim: spamd startup failed exim has failed, please contact the sysadmin.
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Why ???

[noimad1]

Originally posted by isputra
I use above step and i have error message when i restart exim :
--------------------------------
Dec 8 20:16:44 orange exim: exim shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:45 orange exim: antirelayd shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:45 orange exim: spamd shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:46 orange exim: exim shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:46 orange exim: antirelayd shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:46 orange exim: spamd shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:47 orange exim: exim shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:47 orange exim: antirelayd shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:47 orange exim: spamd shutdown failed Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: 2003-12-08 20:16:48 Exim configuration error in line 127: Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: main option "local_domains_include_host_literals" unknown Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: exim startup failed Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: exim startup succeeded Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: 2003-12-08 20:16:48 Exim configuration error in line 127: Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: main option "local_domains_include_host_literals" unknown Dec 8 20:16:48 orange exim: exim startup failed Dec 8 20:16:49 orange exim: antirelayd startup succeeded Dec 8 20:16:53 orange exim: spamd startup failed exim has failed, please contact the sysadmin.
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Why ???

Same error here.....anyone ever figure it out?

Damion

[webdave]

Bump. I am getting this same error.

[LordJMann]

I'm getting the same error these guys have been getting, and I haven't got it to work for 3 months!

[isputra]

any solution with this error ?

[MADLaker]

Another bump, same results

Running;
WHM 9.1.0 cPanel 9.1.0-R85

Also tried what was suggested in this thread, but it produced the same results.

Email - Domain Literals

[chirpy]

Did you try my suggestion in that thread? It worked fine for me and others.

[LordJMann]

Did you try my suggestion in that thread? It worked fine for me and others.

That worked just great! Exim should update their config.