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Subject: Re: sendmail no longer happy with hostname lookup
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:51:34 -0700
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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?



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