From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 22 12:32:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B34037B405 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:32:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id fAMKW720086064; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:32:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:32:07 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: "Justin P. Michel" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail Configuration In-Reply-To: <01cf01c17391$01c7d490$090ea8c0@vhds001> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sendmail is looking for the hostname of the IP address 192.168.14.1. You need to set it in either /etc/hosts or DNS. Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Justin P. Michel wrote: > Greetings, > > I am using FBSD V4.4 Release, with the bundled version of Sendmail. > > It seems to be working fine, however, I continually get the error message on the console: > > jcontinuum sendmail: gethostbyaddr(192.168.14.1) failed: 1 > > I believe this error is pertaining to sendmail not being able to get the hostname of my system. I thought I set it in the right place in the sendmail.cf file: > > # my official domain name > # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain > Dj$w.jcontinuum.ca > > However, even after a reboot, it still gives me the same error. Can somebody tell me where to set this properly? > > Regards, > > Justin P. Michel > J Continuum > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message