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Date:      Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:09:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        chaos@tgci.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: (Fwd) help with sendmail .mc spam filters
Message-ID:  <199802012209.OAA15355@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199802012144.NAA09340@train.tgci.com> from "Riley J. McIntire" at "Feb 1, 98 01:21:50 pm"

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Riley J. McIntire wrote:
> I'm forwarding this for backgroud, but the only issue that contiues 
> is that I'm getting the message:
> 
> 
> Feb 1 13:07:05  nitetrain sendmail[1655]:
> gethostbyaddr(205.185.169.7) failed: 1 
> 
> Is this a DNS related error being reported by sendmail? 
> 

	your reverse dns is failing.
	you must have PTR record to convert 205.185.169.7 into a hostname.
	sendmail is bitching becuse the PTR record does not exist.
jmb



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