Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:42:46 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: error message: sendmail[22285]: gethostbyaddr(10.196.23.164) failed: 1 Message-ID: <003501c07da9$c4e80960$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20010113161840.A22576@arrakis.desert-power.org>
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> Every time I send an email message, I get the following error message: > > sendmail[22285]: gethostbyaddr(X.X.X.X) failed: 1 > > (where x.x.x.x is my local ip address). > > Could anyone point me in the right direction for finding out how to > correct this? gethostbyaddr() does a reverse DNS lookup. If you're running named, make sure that you've got reverse DNS properly configured. If you're not running named, add the appropriate IP/host pairs to /etc/hosts. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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