Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:32:07 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com> To: "Justin P. Michel" <justinmichel@home.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail Configuration Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111221230530.99724-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com> In-Reply-To: <01cf01c17391$01c7d490$090ea8c0@vhds001>
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Sendmail is looking for the hostname of the IP address 192.168.14.1. You need to set it in either /etc/hosts or DNS. Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Justin P. Michel wrote: > Greetings, > > I am using FBSD V4.4 Release, with the bundled version of Sendmail. > > It seems to be working fine, however, I continually get the error message on the console: > > jcontinuum sendmail: gethostbyaddr(192.168.14.1) failed: 1 > > I believe this error is pertaining to sendmail not being able to get the hostname of my system. I thought I set it in the right place in the sendmail.cf file: > > # my official domain name > # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain > Dj$w.jcontinuum.ca > > However, even after a reboot, it still gives me the same error. Can somebody tell me where to set this properly? > > Regards, > > Justin P. Michel > J Continuum > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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