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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 14:30:59 +0100
From: Keith Jones <keith@blueberry.co.uk>
To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Sendmail errors
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On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 07:25:23AM -0500, Frank Griffith wrote:

>     sendmail[1930]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.250) failed: 1
>     sendmail[1930]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.251) failed: 1
>     .
>     .
>     .
> 
> When I send mail directly on the server, I also get the same list 
> of errors. Can someone tell me how I stop the errors. And 
> maybe what does this mean?

'gethostbyaddr' is a system call which resolves the name of a host from
its IP address. It is failing because the IP address is unresolvable.

You need to set up reverse DNS for the new IP addresses.

Keith
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