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Date:      Thu, 02 Aug 2001 18:33:22 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DFran=E7ois?= Lachance <jfzonev@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Internet
Message-ID:  <3B6980D2.E5B991D2@i-clue.de>
References:  <F4aqbC8wSA1XvpFVjCR00000071@hotmail.com>

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Jean-François Lachance wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> tonight my computer gave me an error message:
> 
> gethostbyaddr(192.168.2.1) failed: 2
> 
> 192.168.2.1 is my gateway IP address and with any other computers running
> win98, there are no problems. Why is my FreeBSD box doing this? Do you have
> any ideas? I get this error message by sendmail.

The reverse name mapping for the IP address 192.168.2.1 has failed. Did
you configure DNS on your network?

Have fun
-Christoph Sold

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