From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 20:49:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07418 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:49:55 -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 UAA07394 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA29885; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:49:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:49:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Arthur W. Neilson III" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: localhost error In-Reply-To: <35686C3F.D2B1E0F8@neilson.ddns.org> 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, 24 May 1998, Arthur W. Neilson III wrote: > I'm getting the following messages in /var/log/messages on my system, > I'm running > FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE on a Tyan Titan 1571S Motherboard w/AMD K6-200 > onboard. > I have a 3COM 3C509B-TP ISA card installed and it's connected to a > Motorola cable modem. > > Here's the /var/log/messages: > > May 24 07:35:36 neilson popper[5936]: Client at "127.0.0.1" resolves to > an unknown host name "localhost.hawaii.rr.com" Have the domain administrator for hawaii.rr.com add a localhost entry pointing to address 127.0.0.1. It's a DNS misconfig. It comes from having that in /etc/hosts and popper insists on checking if it exists in the DNS. 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