From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 8 12:56:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA23142 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 12:56:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA23107 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 12:56:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA06934; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 20:24:04 GMT Message-Id: <199711082024.UAA06934@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Kwoody cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Gethostbyaddr failed... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Nov 1997 09:38:07 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 20:24:04 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > After seeing some discussion about sendmail -q and sending mail out when > the ppp conection was up I thought that was a neat idea as I sort of did > the same thing. > > I would nohup mail script, hangup and a few minutes later dialin again > and read new mail. But any replies (via pine) I would o for > postpone and sending later. Now I use the sendmail -q option in my mail > script. > > One thing is now in the /var/log/maillog I see and error gethostbyaddr() > error for 10.0.0.1. Mail works and all, what do I add to sendmail to fix > this? I didnt get this error before I started the sendmail -q trick. Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/ispmail.html. You probably want the ``nodns'' and ``nocanonify'' bits (if not the whole thing). > kwoody@citytel.net -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....