Re: [cobalt-users] Raq3 Sendmail can't gethostbyaddr. Is that wrong?

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

> "Cobalter" <xtraprss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>   wrote
> ON: Friday, March 06, 2037 6:06 PM
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is a sendmail or DNS issue (yup, I'm new to this email
> > and DNS thing), but if anybody could help, I'd be greatly thrilled.
> >
> > I keep getting the following errors, which show up as Security Violations
> > in logcheck (mail.host.ip.address is, of course, the server's own IP
> > address). Can anybody give me a clue as to what I should check first?
> >
> > Mar 6 14:39:07 www sendmail[11140]: gethostbyaddr(mail.host.ip.address)
> > failed: 1
Gerald wrote
> <SNIP>
> I think (dangerous)
> That reverse loohup is not working (DNS).
> sendmail is attempting to resolve the hostname from the ip address.
> Either fix reverse
> or add the host name - ip address to /etc/resolv.conf
Gerald writes:
I erred the ip address host name goes in etc/hosts