Re: [cobalt-users] maillog errors

[Jeff Bilicki <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

When sendmail starts up it tries to do a reverse lookup on 
all IP addresses listed by /sbin/ifconfig.  This means sendmail 
cannot find the reverse lookup. 

<395794D5.F62ECFDC@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what this might indicate, from my maillog file on a
> raq3i:

> Jun 26 11:02:26 www sendmail[31263]: gethostbyaddr(XX.XXX.XX.XXX)
> failed: 1
> Jun 26 11:02:26 www sendmail[31264]: gethostbyaddr(XX.XXX.XX.XXX)
> failed: 1
> Jun 26 11:02:26 www sendmail[31263]: gethostbyaddr(XX.XXX.XX.XXX)
> failed: 1
> Jun 26 11:02:26 www sendmail[31266]: gethostbyaddr(XX.XXX.XX.XXX)
> failed: 1
> Jun 26 11:02:26 www sendmail[31267]: gethostbyaddr(XX.XXX.XX.XXX)
> failed: 1
> Jun 26 11:02:26 www sendmail[31264]: gethostbyaddr(XX.XXX.XX.XXX)
> failed: 1
> Jun 26 11:02:26 www sendmail[31266]: gethostbyaddr(XX.XXX.XX.XXX)
> failed: 1
> Jun 26 11:02:26 www sendmail[31267]: gethostbyaddr(XX.XXX.XX.XXX)
> failed: 1
> Jun 26 11:02:27 www sendmail[31263]: gethostbyaddr(XX.XXX.XX.XXX)
> failed: 1


> (XX.XXX.XX.XXX) stands for individual IP numbers of a few of my
> virtual-sites...

> can anyone also tell me what to look for in the mail log that would
> indicate mail abuses...?

> Thanks in Advance,

> ~ Theo


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