From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 11:16:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Kares.server (ppp216.cb.worldonline.cz [212.90.233.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E80137B403 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:16:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vaclav.kares@worldonline.cz) Received: from localhost (vena@localhost) by Kares.server (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f73IHdQ00662; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:17:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from vena@kares.server) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:17:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Vaclav Kares To: =?iso-8859-1?B?SmVhbi1GcmFu529pcyBMYWNoYW5jZQ==?= Cc: Subject: Re: Internet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010803201140.T653-100000@kares.server> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE 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 > 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 ha= ve > any ideas? I get this error message by sendmail. Have you the next line in /etc/hosts ? 192.168.2.1 name name.domain You can configure own DNS as was written also. > John F Lachance > > _________________________________________________________________ > T=E9l=E9chargez MSN Explorer gratuitement =E0 l'adresse > http://explorer.msn.fr/intl.asp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message