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Date:      Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:19:41 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@freebsd.com
Subject:   Re: Syslog bug?
Message-ID:  <19970427191941.GG15779@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970427091453.00aed4d4@mixcom.com>; from Jeffrey J. Mountin on Apr 27, 1997 09:14:53 -0500
References:  <3.0.32.19970427091453.00aed4d4@mixcom.com>

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As Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:

> >Because you forget to add a DNS reverse lookup entry for them.
> 
> Didn't forget.  Aliased IPs don't get inverse for web hosts.

They should get.  This address appears in public, so it is expected to
be reverse lookupable.

> Now I don't C much, but I see no reason why they decided to log to both
> warning *and* whatever else, usually info, is set for the mail facility.
> Not to mention this is default behaviour. <shrug>

To bother you to fix the broken DNS. :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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