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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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