From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 1 12:00:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09825 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 12:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09815 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 12:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id SAA25226; Thu, 1 May 1997 18:59:42 GMT Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 11:59:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Robert Shady cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem In-Reply-To: <199705011657.MAA15205@server.id.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 May 1997, Robert Shady wrote: > The problem: > In certain software packages, the gethostbyname call appears to fail. > The software: > (so far) sendmail, and harvest The addresses listed in your sendmail example don't have reverse DNS configured. That's what sendmail is complaining about. No idea why harvest is having problems though. Is it all sites or just your own? Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82