From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 13 13:41:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1528237B6A2 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 13:41:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA65138; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:40:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <003501c07da9$c4e80960$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Mark B. Withers" , "freebsd-questions" References: <20010113161840.A22576@arrakis.desert-power.org> Subject: Re: error message: sendmail[22285]: gethostbyaddr(10.196.23.164) failed: 1 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:42:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Every time I send an email message, I get the following error message: > > sendmail[22285]: gethostbyaddr(X.X.X.X) failed: 1 > > (where x.x.x.x is my local ip address). > > Could anyone point me in the right direction for finding out how to > correct this? gethostbyaddr() does a reverse DNS lookup. If you're running named, make sure that you've got reverse DNS properly configured. If you're not running named, add the appropriate IP/host pairs to /etc/hosts. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message