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From: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net>
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Subject: Re: error message: sendmail[22285]: gethostbyaddr(10.196.23.164) failed: 1
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In-Reply-To: <003501c07da9$c4e80960$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:41:35PM -0500
Date:	Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:56:14 -0500
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Thanks for all the help!

Both yours and Ian's advice was right!

I don't get the error messages anymore and all I had to do was edit
/etc/hosts to correct this. :)

Mark

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:41:35PM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> > 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
> 


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