Re: Is this log error a a problem.

It certainly should, unless sendmail is doing something stupid and
using only DNS for IP lookups ..

 - Jamie

Marcos Rubinstein wrote:

> 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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