Re: Is this log error a a problem.

mmm.... how about if the ip's are included in /etc/hosts? (and your server
is configured to look first there) does this work for reverse too?

Cheers!
Marcos

sorry that it's more than 25 days old!.. but I have been *very* busy (and
will be again!)... and now I'm catching up with this list ;)

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Jamie Cameron wrote:

> Terry Allen wrote:
>
> > Hi again,
> >     Just wondered - is the following log error for sendmail a problem I
> > should be trying to fix, or is it something I will autofix when I have the
> > proper domain & host name assigned to the machine:
> >
> > gethostbyaddr(203.53.37.179) failed: 1
> >
> >     Just for further info, the IP address that will be assigned later
> > already has a number of domains pointing to it - I will be transtitioning
> > them via Webmin's Bind module later.
>
>
> That message is not a problem - it just means that sendmail couldn't do a
> reverse lookup for that IP address, which is presumably one of the network
> addresses for your server. Just having a forward address record pointing to
> that IP is not enough for the reverse resolution to work .. your ISP will
> probably have to set that up for you.
>
>   - Jamie
>
>
>
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