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Date:      Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:04:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail errors
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419220342.8564U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000d01bd6be7$784754c0$6f0542ce@flg1>

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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Frank Griffith wrote:

> I have FreeBSD 2.2.6 running on a 486-66 system. Each
> morning when I look at this system I see something like 
> the following messages:
> 
> Apr 17 02:00:03 FreeBSD sendmail[958]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.1) failed: 1
> Apr 17 02:00:06 FreeBSD sendmail[982]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.1) failed: 1
> Apr 17 02:00:10 FreeBSD sendmail[991]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.1) failed: 1
> 
> My FreeBSD system's IP is 192.168.0.1.
> 
> Is this an error of some kind that I should worry about? How can I shut it off?

Yes -- the reverse lookup for the local machine is failing.

Add a record for your own machine to /etc/hosts.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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