From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 5:14:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axel.truedestiny.net (a185066.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.185.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48EB37B406 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 05:14:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by axel.truedestiny.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F0A1049AB2; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:14:35 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:14:35 +0200 From: Axel Scheepers To: Fuzzy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msg: can't verify hostname: getaddrinfo(, AF_INET) failed? Message-ID: <20020606141435.F67863@mars.thuis> Reply-To: Axel Scheepers References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:02:17AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:02:17AM -0400, Fuzzy wrote: > Jun 6 03:17:53 pooh inetd[14172]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 5: > can't verify hostname: > getaddrinfo(ip-53-53.jdrmedia.com, AF_INET) failed > > > we've been getting a lot of these, and have no idea why inetd > is complaining. its not like I can fix the DNS for the problem > hosts. what am I supposed to do to do to avoid these messages? > > thanks > > fuz > Hi Fuz, Can you resolve that name by hand with nslookup or host ? Or it might be that you've put in your dns name (e.g. www.blah.net) in hosts.allow, which in turn tries to resolve it and gets ip-53-53.jrmedia.com back, it isn't the same and hence the msg. (Don't know if it really does this, but it seems reasonable to do) try replacing it with your ip address then. Gr, -- Axel Scheepers UNIX System Administrator email: axel@axel.truedestiny.net a.scheepers@iae.nl http://axel.truedestiny.net/~axel ------------------------------------------ This fortune is inoperative. Please try another. ------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message