HP3000-L Archives

June 2001, Week 3

HP3000-L@RAVEN.UTC.EDU
Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
Re: sendmail
From:
Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:11:01 -0700
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (32 lines) 
"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?

That's probably sendmail trying to determine your local hostname at startup
time.

You should be concerned; you do not want to see any errors like this at
sendmail startup.

What happens if log on as the sendmail job's user.account and you go into the
shell and do:

        /BIND/PUB/bin/nslookup 172.23.10.11

Check to make sure that /SYS/NET/RESLVCNF and /etc/resolv.conf are set up
correctly and have the proper world-readable permissions.
--
[log in to unmask]
Remainder of .sig suppressed to conserve scarce California electrons...

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *

ATOM RSS1 RSS2