From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 27 10:20:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA19719 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 10:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.cdrom.com [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA19714 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 10:20:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA19372 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 10:20:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA01286 for hackers@freebsd.com; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:20:49 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA06160; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:19:42 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970427191941.GG15779@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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? References: <3.0.32.19970427091453.00aed4d4@mixcom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970427091453.00aed4d4@mixcom.com>; from Jeffrey J. Mountin on Apr 27, 1997 09:14:53 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. 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. ;-)