> 
> I think we need a bit more information here. You say the system rebooted but 
> don't say way (the sendmail messages alone are not indicative of a reboot). 
> Was this a panic?

Where do I get more information? At least there is nothing more in syslog.

> 
> My guess on the sendmail and groups issue is a name service problem.
> Checking sendmail's source, the message prints h_errno returned from 
> gethostbyaddr which, from <netdb.h> is  HOST_NOT_FOUND.
> Again, guessing, I would speculate that wherever 192.168.56.1 is defined is 
> the same place as where the groups are defined, and they became inaccessible 
> for some reason.

Well, 192.168.56.1 is no address in our home network and I don't know, why 
sendmail wants to contact it.

> Where are the missing groups defined?

Only  local, I guess in files (PAM?). 

> What name service are you using?
>     If NIS/NIS+/LDAP, are all the configured servers/replicas still running?

Not configured

>     Did somebody delete these entries from the name service?
>     Can any other hosts which use the same name service resolve these 
> entries? e.g. Does "getent hosts 192.168.56.1" return anything?

no

> What are the nsswitch.conf entries for hosts: and group: (and possibly 
> netgroup: if you're using it).

passwd:     files
group:      files
hosts:      files dns

Martin


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