Larry,
Can you ping your sendmail-server by name?
Regrads,
Jan Gerrit Kootstra
"Simonsen, Larry" wrote:
> Other than reslvcnf.net.sys for dns lookup what other things need to be
> established. I can ping by name i.e. ping yahoo.com.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Gerrit Kootstra [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 12:46 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: sendmail
>
> "Simonsen, Larry" wrote:
>
> > I am running send mail for mail message queuing. For each message or at
> > startup of the daemon the following message is logged to the
> /tmp/syslog.log
> > file
> >
> > Jun 16 03:34:37 localhost sendmail[6422600]: gethostbyaddr(172.23.10.11)
> > failed: 1
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas as to what the error/warning is and if I should
> > be concerned? What action should I take?
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > Larry Simonsen Phone: 801-489-2450
> > Flowserve Corporation Fax: 801-491-1750
> > PO Box 2200 http://www.Flowserve.com
> > Springville, UT 84663 e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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> Larry,
>
> Your machine tries a reverse lookup of the ip-address to it's hostname. This
> fails.
>
> Could be a problem when you want sendmail to receive email. Sending email
> will
> go with out problems.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jan Gerrit Kootstra
>
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