Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:36:46 -0500 From: Jeffrey Dunitz <orpheus@lemieux.condolan.asn> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Lachance?= <jfzonev@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internet Message-ID: <20010802113646.B1316@lemieux.condolan.asn> In-Reply-To: <F4aqbC8wSA1XvpFVjCR00000071@hotmail.com>; from jfzonev@hotmail.com on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:08:20PM %2B0000 References: <F4aqbC8wSA1XvpFVjCR00000071@hotmail.com>
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On this day Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:08:20PM +0000, the following great wisdom poured forth from the mouth of Jean-François Lachance, to the stark amazement of all who witnessed: > 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. So you solved your other connectivity problem, I guess? the error you're seeing now means that freebsd can't find a valid DNS name for that IP address. You either need to set up a DNS server on your internal net (preferable, for geek value, education, and more easy expandability of your network--you ARE going to get more computers, right? Of course you are.), OR you can simply add some entries to /etc/hosts, like we used to do circa 1983. I highly recommend setting up a DNS server, perhaps on your linux firewall--just don't make it available to the outside world. > > John F Lachance > > _________________________________________________________________ > Téléchargez MSN Explorer gratuitement à l'adresse > http://explorer.msn.fr/intl.asp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jeffrey Dunitz | unix | orpheus@avalon.net BOFH Emeritus, Avalon Networks | perl | (651) 686-9974 / http://www.avalon.net/~orpheus | net/sec | Eagan, MN _ / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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