Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:49:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Arthur W. Neilson III" <art@neilson.ddns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: localhost error Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526204842.13318j-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35686C3F.D2B1E0F8@neilson.ddns.org>
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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
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