From: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: error message: sendmail[22285]: gethostbyaddr(10.196.23.164) failed: 1 Message-ID: <20010113165709.G22576@arrakis.desert-power.org> In-Reply-To: <003501c07da9$c4e80960$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:41:35PM -0500 References: <20010113161840.A22576@arrakis.desert-power.org> <003501c07da9$c4e80960$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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Thanks for all the help! Both yours and Ian's advice was right! I don't get the error messages anymore and all I had to do was edit /etc/hosts to correct this. :) Mark On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:41:35PM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Every time I send an email message, I get the following error message: > > > > sendmail[22285]: gethostbyaddr(X.X.X.X) failed: 1 > > > > (where x.x.x.x is my local ip address). > > > > Could anyone point me in the right direction for finding out how to > > correct this? > > gethostbyaddr() does a reverse DNS lookup. > > If you're running named, make sure that you've got reverse DNS properly > configured. > If you're not running named, add the appropriate IP/host pairs to > /etc/hosts. > > -- > Matt Emmerton > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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