Re: [cobalt-users] Disabling gethostbyaddr on sendmail restart

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

Grant Cummings <GrantC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
ON: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 5:02 PM


> There has GOT to be a way to do this doesn't there?
>
> It takes upwards of 30 minutes now for sendmail to restart while it does
> this over and over...
>
> Jun 27 16:46:49 host1 sendmail[21131]: gethostbyaddr(208.167.128.46) failed:
> 2
> Jun 27 16:47:02 host1 sendmail[21131]: gethostbyaddr(208.167.128.47) failed:
> 2
> Jun 27 16:47:36 host1 sendmail[21131]: gethostbyaddr(208.167.128.49) failed:
> 2
> Jun 27 16:47:55 host1 sendmail[21131]: gethostbyaddr(208.167.128.50) failed:
> 2
> Jun 27 16:48:08 host1 sendmail[21131]: gethostbyaddr(208.167.128.51) failed:
> 2
>
> Etc...
>

This may not be the best way, but if you control these IP's (known-trusted),
make entries in /etc/hosts for these IP's and reverse-look-up is no longer
required.
Sendmail will find the IP in /etc/hosts and quit annoying you!