From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 20:42:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lark.capnet.state.tx.us (lark.capnet.state.tx.us [204.65.39.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D5937B9B2 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:42:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bryan.Bradsby@capnet.state.tx.us) Received: from localhost (bbradsby@localhost) by lark.capnet.state.tx.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3B3gnq02630; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:42:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:42:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Bryan Bradsby To: David Daugherty Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail woes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, David Daugherty wrote: > In my log files I keep getting gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.1) errors. This box > is a natd/router/firewall box which of course has 2 NICS (1 to cable > modem, 1 to internal network). In my hosts file I have: > 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.net localhost > 24.12.xxx.xxx roosevelt.mydomain.net roosevelt > 24.12.xxx.xxx roosevelt.mydomain.net > > 192.168.1.88 reagan > 192.168.1.28 lincoln > 192.168.1.45 truman > > Do I need to have a definition for 192.168.1.1 in hosts? > ie: 192.168.1.1 roosevelt.mydomain.net roosevelt > 192.168.1.1 roosevelt.mydomain.net Never been in that exact situation. What you suggest above won't hurt. If you are running a recent sendmail 8.9.x then look at the sendmail.cf file, specifically this entry comes to mind: # shall we get local names from our installed interfaces? #O DontProbeInterfaces=False Change to True, uncomment, HUP sendmail, and watch your logs. > David > Software Eng. - NetManage seen any green chameleons lately? -bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message