From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 9:31:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE3837B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA28692; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 18:39:55 +0200 Message-ID: <3B6980D2.E5B991D2@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 18:33:22 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DFran=E7ois?= Lachance Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internet References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jean-François Lachance wrote: > > Hi there, > > tonight my computer gave me an error message: > > gethostbyaddr(192.168.2.1) failed: 2 > > 192.168.2.1 is my gateway IP address and with any other computers running > win98, there are no problems. Why is my FreeBSD box doing this? Do you have > any ideas? I get this error message by sendmail. The reverse name mapping for the IP address 192.168.2.1 has failed. Did you configure DNS on your network? Have fun -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message