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Date:      Tue, 8 May 2001 08:15:02 GMT
From:      David Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   sendmail gethostbyaddr error
Message-ID:  <200105080815.f488F2x26971@d.tracker>

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Following an upgrade to 4.3S I am now having a problem with sendmail.

I get the following error;

May  5 01:28:38 d sendmail[506]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.1) failed: 1
May  5 01:29:18 d sendmail[506]: gethostbyaddr(216.191.60.67) failed: 2
May  5 01:29:18 d sendmail[506]: daemon invoked without full pathname;
kill -1 won't work
May  5 01:29:18 d sendmail[514]: starting daemon (8.11.3):
SMTP+queueing@00:30:0


I know I can put an entry in /etc/hosts for the 192.168.1.1 part, but I
can't for the other
because I have a dial-up connection, and each time I connect I get a new IP.

In addition, while sendmail will still send, it slows down
the send as it trys, and fails, to lookup these IP's each time.

The only possibility I can think of is writing a small script to look
up the IP I'm operating on, and enter it in the /etc/hosts file
each time I connect.

Any ideas how I can deal with this?


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