Yes, a messed up RESLVCNF is going to confuse sendmail.

Lines that start with # are comments, so sendmail has nothing to turn to for
doing the inverse lookup of your e3000's IP address.

- Mark B.

"Born, Ken" wrote:
>
> Greetings, Its been a while since I worked on this.  I think somebody
> modified the /SYS/NET/RESLVCNF while I wasn't watching.
> The original file looked something like:
> domain icjia.org
> nameserver 167.141.1.5
> nameserver 207.98.129.77
> nameserver 199.199.99.99
>
> Now it looks like
> #domain icjia.gov
> #nameserver 124.0.0.1
>
> Could this be the reason for the following error in my syslog.log file ?
>
> Jun 18 14:58:00 localhost sendmail[2883702]: gethostbyaddr(167.141.1.100)
> failed
> : 2
> Jun 18 14:58:00 localhost sendmail[2883702]: starting daemon (8.9.1):
> SMTP+queue
> ing@00:05:00
>
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