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Date:      Wed, 13 May 1998 16:05:34 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sendmail Error
Message-ID:  <19980513160534.A23179@ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <000701bd7e6c$50e080e0$e33488cf@flg1>; from Frank Griffith on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 07:40:29AM -0500
References:  <000701bd7e6c$50e080e0$e33488cf@flg1>

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On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 07:40:29AM -0500, Frank Griffith wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD 2.2.6 on a 486-66 system. Each 
> morning when I examine the screen I see the message that
> the sendmail failed.  You guys have helped me with this in 
> the past, but I don't have the e-mail you sent to me explaining
> which file to edit to correct this problem. Can someone tell me 
> again? Many thanks.
> 

There is a mailing list archive available at:

	http://www.freebsd.org/search.html#mailinglists

Next time please use it to *undelete* your messages ;-)


| Date:      Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:04:00 -0700 (PDT)
| From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
| To:        Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com>
| Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
| Subject:   Re: sendmail errors
| Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419220342.8564U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
| In-Reply-To: <000d01bd6be7$784754c0$6f0542ce@flg1>
| 
| On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Frank Griffith wrote:
| 
| > I have FreeBSD 2.2.6 running on a 486-66 system. Each
| > morning when I look at this system I see something like 
| > the following messages:
| > 
| > Apr 17 02:00:03 FreeBSD sendmail[958]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.1) failed: 1
| > Apr 17 02:00:06 FreeBSD sendmail[982]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.1) failed: 1
| > Apr 17 02:00:10 FreeBSD sendmail[991]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.0.1) failed: 1
| > 
| > My FreeBSD system's IP is 192.168.0.1.
| > 
| > Is this an error of some kind that I should worry about? How can I shut it off?
| 
| Yes -- the reverse lookup for the local machine is failing.
| 
| Add a record for your own machine to /etc/hosts.
| 
| 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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