Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:45:59 GMT
From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To: tylei@hotmail.com ("Jerry Lei")
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: an error message from sendmail
Message-ID: <38ed2e76.169947090@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <SEN.955062075.84985341@news.sentex.net>
References: <SEN.955062075.84985341@news.sentex.net>
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On 6 Apr 2000 19:01:15 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you 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.
Yes, the IP address does not have a DNS PTR record for it. If its just a
192.168.x.x address (i.e. from the RFC 1918 space), you can add an entry
for it in the /etc/hosts file, and then change the order of /etc/hosts.conf
or add something like
zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "db.192.168.1";
};
in /etc/named.conf
and db.192.168.1 has something like
@ IN SOA my.example.com. me.example.com. (
200004060 ; serial
10800 ; refresh after
3600 ; retry after
604800 ; expire after
66000 ) ; minimum TTL
;
; Define the name servers
IN NS my.example.com
;
; Addresses
1 IN PTR my-inside-address.example.com.
---Mike
Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net)
Sentex Communications Corp,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)
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