From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 25 12:33:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA23968 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:33:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA23952 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:33:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA17533; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:33:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:33:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kwoody cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Gethostbyaddr failed... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Kwoody wrote: > > > One thing is now in the /var/log/maillog I see and error gethostbyaddr() > > > error for 10.0.0.1. Mail works and all, what do I add to sendmail to fix > > > this? I didnt get this error before I started the sendmail -q trick. > > > > Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/ispmail.html. You probably > > want the ``nodns'' and ``nocanonify'' bits (if not the whole thing). > > Well after finally getting around to looking at the above url I have to > rebuild my sendmail.cf file eh? > > Well there's a nice steep learning curve, but borrowed sendmail book from > an my ISP's admin and was able to build one within a few hours, though it > didnt work. But am starting to get the gist of it now. The easiest thing to is checkout the sendmail source from the FreeBSD source tree, drop into cf/cf, copy freebsd.mc to local.mc, make changes to local.mc as appropriate, then run `make' to build a new config file. Copy to /etc & kill -HUP sendmail to finish. I can do a checkout & tar.gz that up for you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major