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.
Alternatively, lookup tables can be specified in CIDR
(Classless Inter-Domain Routing) form. In this case, each
input is compared against a list of patterns. When a match
is found, the corresponding result is returned and the search
is terminated.
To find out what types of lookup tables your Postfix system
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
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 decimal 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. Therefore table entries
will be matched regardless of redundant zero characters.
Note: address information may be enclosed inside "[]" but
this form is not required.
IPv6 support is available in Postfix 2.2 and later.
"network_address
When a search string matches the specified network address,
use the corresponding result value.
"blank
Empty lines and whitespace-only lines are ignored, as
are lines whose first non-whitespace character is a `#'.
"multi-line
A logical line starts with non-whitespace text. A line that
starts with whitespace continues a logical line.
TABLE SEARCH ORDER
Patterns are applied in the order as specified in the table, 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
Use "
postconf readme_directory" or
"
postconf html_directory" to locate this information.
DATABASE_README, Postfix lookup table overview
AUTHOR(S)
The CIDR table lookup code was originally written by:
Jozsef Kadlecsik
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
