That makes sense. It only seems to be the @home addresses that have trouble,
and the trouble seems to be intermittent (no problems today).
Thanks for you help.
-K
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to
anger."
> From: "Paul J. Schinder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:52:47 -0500
> To: Keary Suska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Qmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Qmail-Popup Problem
>
>> Qmail-Popup is filling my logs with:
>>
>> qmail-popup[29108]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 8: can't verify
>> hostname: gethostbyname(c393514-a.grdjctn1.co.home.com) failed
>>
>> It appears that every connection attempt log this message, but I can
>> nslookup without any problem, and tcpdmatch without any problem either. It
>> appears that this could be a TCP Wrappers problem but I can't duplicate it
>> with tcpdmatch, and it doesn't fail for other servers.
>>
>> Anyone seen this before?
>
> Yes. @Home has a tendency to lose entries in one or both of their
> main DNS servers. When this happens, you frequently get this kind of
> message from tcpwrappers. I just ran a dnstrace on this address and
> it looks like it's back to normal; both 24.0.0.27 and 24.2.0.27 know
> the address. Usually if you just wait a few hours, the problem gets
> fixed. Heaven help you if they lose the entries permanently, which
> has happened to us twice Their front line customer support people
> don't know what DNS is, and you have to argue with them for a while
> until you get kicked up the the second line people, who usually know
> about basic Internet services.
>
>>
>> -K
>
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> Paul J. Schinder
> NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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