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Date:      Wed, 3 Nov 1999 03:48:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Schroebel <mschroebel@yahoo.com>
To:        Jerry Bell <jerry@wally.bellnetworks.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz
Subject:   Re: Sendmail to freebsd-questions won't go, cannot find host name
Message-ID:  <19991103114847.5256.rocketmail@web119.yahoomail.com>

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Okay, I know why reverse lookup fails from the outside
world.  I have a class C subnet masked 
as 255.255.255.240, and I'm not authoritive for
158.232.208.in-addr.arpa.  Off to my ISP!

Thanks guys!
  
--- Jerry Bell <jerry@wally.bellnetworks.net> wrote:
> It looks like hub.freebsd.org is trying to resolve
> your IP address into a
> hostname, unsuccessfully.  'nslookup 208.232.158.3'
> fails, which means you
> probably need to contact your ISP (or set it
> yourself, if you are
> authoritative) to have the reverse lookup for that
> IP address set to
> beagle.epooch.com.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Jerry
> http://www.bellnetworks.net/cs


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