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] > > ------------------------------------------------- > > All opinions expressed herein are my own and reflect, in no way, those of > my > > employer. > > > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * > > * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * > > 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 > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * > * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *