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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



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