Postfix manual - cidr_table(5)

CIDR_TABLE(5) CIDR_TABLE(5) NAME cidr_table - format of Postfix CIDR tables SYNOPSIS postmap -q "string" cidr:/etc/postfix/filename postmap -q - cidr:/etc/postfix/filename <inputfile DESCRIPTION The Postfix mail system uses optional lookup tables. These tables are usually in dbm or db format. Alterna- tively, lookup tables can be specified in CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) form. To find out what types of lookup tables your Postfix sys- tem supports use the "postconf -m" command. To test lookup tables, use the "postmap -q" command as described in the SYNOPSIS above. TABLE FORMAT The general form of a Postfix CIDR table is: network_address/network_mask result When a search string matches the specified network block, use the corresponding result value. Specify 0.0.0.0/0 to match every IPv4 address, and ::/0 to match every IPv6 address. An IPv4 network address is a sequence of four deci- mal octets separated by ".", and an IPv6 network address is a sequence of three to eight hexadecimal octet pairs separated by ":". Before comparisons are made, lookup keys and table entries are converted from string to binary. There- fore table entries will be matched regardless of redundant zero characters. Note: address information may be enclosed inside "[]" but this form is not recommended. IPv6 support is available in Postfix 2.2 and later. network_address result When a search string matches the specified network address, use the corresponding result value. blank lines and comments Empty lines and whitespace-only lines are ignored, as are lines whose first non-whitespace character is a `#'. multi-line text A logical line starts with non-whitespace text. A line that starts with whitespace continues a logi- cal line. TABLE SEARCH ORDER Patterns are applied in the order as specified in the ta- ble, until a pattern is found that matches the search string. EXAMPLE SMTPD ACCESS MAP /etc/postfix/main.cf: smtpd_client_restrictions = ... cidr:/etc/postfix/client.cidr ... /etc/postfix/client.cidr: # Rule order matters. Put more specific whitelist entries # before more general blacklist entries. 192.168.1.1 OK 192.168.0.0/16 REJECT SEE ALSO postmap(1), Postfix lookup table manager regexp_table(5), format of regular expression tables pcre_table(5), format of PCRE tables README FILES DATABASE_README, Postfix lookup table overview AUTHOR(S) The CIDR table lookup code was originally written by: Jozsef Kadlecsik [email protected] KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics POB. 49 1525 Budapest, Hungary Adopted and adapted by: Wietse Venema IBM T.J. Watson Research P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA CIDR_TABLE(5)