From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 22:04:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA24340 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24219 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 05:04:05 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA08773; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:04:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:04:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Frank Griffith cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail errors In-Reply-To: <000d01bd6be7$784754c0$6f0542ce@flg1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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