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Re: [cobalt-users] gethostbyaddr ???



jeanjean schrieb:

>Hi,
>
>I want to know what this is... :
>
>Feb 12 12:07:46 raq sendmail[18747]: gethostbyaddr(m.y.I.P) failed: 1
>
>My logcheck send me hundreds like that every day, but that server is not so
>much used.... !?
>Thanks a lot
>Best regards
>Jean
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sendmail try to resolve the hostname and failed this happens most
if no reverse lookup is possible (DNS) ... maybe change this in
your DNS settings or maybe try to add the IP to

/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1         localhost
123.123.123.123   my.domain.com

or just ignore it ;-)

regards

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