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> Subject: Re: What causes this error message??
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> name resolution is failing for address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX. If this is one
> of your ip addresses, I would say that you should be concerned. If it
> is some random mailhost on the internet, the don't worry about it, it
It means that Sendmail could not resolve the IP of the connecting
system to a valid domain name.
You probably can't do anything to fix it...unless it's your system
and your DNS. Otherwise, it's up to the person responsible for the
domain/IP allocation of the system, in question, to fix their rev
Could some one tell me what causes this log entry. I know it's sendmail and
the ip address is mine but what causes it and how do I fix it?
TIA
Steve
Feb 21 15:22:13 localhost sendmail[23705]: gethostbyaddr(XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX)
failed: 2
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name resolution is failing for address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX. If this is one
of your ip addresses, I would say that you should be concerned. If it
is some random mailhost on the internet, the don't worry about it, it
happens frequently.
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:54:31AM -0500, Steve Gulick wrote:
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Your machine failed to successfully get a hosts name when looking it up by
IP... Check your DNS config.
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> From: Steve Gulick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 6:55 AM
> To: redhat-list
> Subject: What causes thi
