Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:43:44 -0700 From: Jim Mock <jim@luna.cdrom.com> To: Jerry Lei <tylei@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an error message from sendmail Message-ID: <20000406164344.C69364@luna.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <20000406225729.17566.qmail@hotmail.com>; from tylei@hotmail.com on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:57:29PM -0700 References: <20000406225729.17566.qmail@hotmail.com>
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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
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