Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:51:34 -0700 From: "Ray Kohler" <rkohler1@cox.rr.com> To: "Gregory Neil Shapiro" <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail no longer happy with hostname lookup Message-ID: <001501c12d10$da51b8c0$e401a8c0@cox.rr.com> References: <000e01c12d01$1becb740$e401a8c0@cox.rr.com><15238.54526.861273.991713@horsey.gshapiro.net><000f01c12d0a$8751ea60$e401a8c0@cox.rr.com> <15238.58799.643481.717265@horsey.gshapiro.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Neil Shapiro" <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Ray Kohler" <ray.kohler@mail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 4:39 PM Subject: Re: sendmail no longer happy with hostname lookup > gshapiro> confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES DontProbeInterfaces > > rkohler1> That didn't fix it either. (And I made sure to do it right - the > rkohler1> proper 'O' line made it into sendmail.cf and sendmail was killed and > rkohler1> restarted.) As I said elsewhere, sendmail's gethostbyaddr()'s are > rkohler1> failing, and they have the right address. > > Odd, if the error you are getting is something like: > > Aug 24 03:12:04 horsey sendmail[73878]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.1) failed: 1 > > Then the only place that occurs in the code is add_hostnames() and the only > function which calls add_hostnames() is load_if_names() which isn't called > if DontProbeInterfaces is set to True: > > define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', `True') > > or: > > O DontProbeInterfaces=True My bad, this does fix it. I had made a typo (or maybe a thinko) the first time I tried it. Why is this now necessary when it wasn't before? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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