From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 16:44:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luna.cdrom.com (luna.cdrom.com [204.216.28.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850ED37BEED for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@luna.cdrom.com) Received: by luna.cdrom.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 01E1DE7; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:43:44 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Jerry Lei Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an error message from sendmail Message-ID: <20000406164344.C69364@luna.cdrom.com> Reply-To: jim@luna.cdrom.com References: <20000406225729.17566.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.11i In-Reply-To: <20000406225729.17566.qmail@hotmail.com>; from tylei@hotmail.com on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:57:29PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 at 15:57:29 -0700, Jerry Lei wrote: > Hi, > > My FreeBSD3.3-release sometimes will give me an error message like > sendmail: gethostbyaddress(my IP address) error. > > Can anyone give me a suggestion about this error message? Thanks. It appears to be trying to do a reverse DNS lookup on the IP. If it doesn't have find one, it tends to spit those errors. - jim -- - jim mock - walnut creek cdrom/freebsd test labs - jim@luna.cdrom.com - - phone: 1.925.691.2800 x.3814 - fax: 1.925.674.0821 - jim@FreeBSD.org - - editor - The FreeBSDzine - www.freebsdzine.org - jim@freebsdzine.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message