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Re: [cobalt-users] sendmail makes an awful lot of log fill in maillog
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] sendmail makes an awful lot of log fill in maillog
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon May 19 17:40:00 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Tue, 20 May 2003, Kim Schulz wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2003 08:06:41 -0700 (PDT)
> Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 May 2003, Kim Schulz wrote:
> > > May 19 13:50:13 ns2 sendmail[13012]: NAA13012: from=httpd,
> > > size=2552,
> > > class=0, pri=32552, nrcpts=1,
> > > msgid=<200305191150.NAA13012@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > > relay=httpd@localhost May 19 13:50:13 ns2 sendmail[13015]:
> > > gethostbyaddr(81.19.234.252) failed: 1
> > > May 19 13:50:13 ns2 sendmail[13015]: gethostbyaddr(81.19.234.233)
> > > failed: 1
> > > May 19 13:50:13 ns2 sendmail[13015]: gethostbyaddr(81.19.234.240)
> > > failed: 1
> > > May 19 13:50:13 ns2 sendmail[13015]: gethostbyaddr(81.19.234.237)
> > > failed: 1
> > >
> > > is there a way to get rid of this error?
> >
> > those ip addresses have no ptr records.
> > maybe you can find the 0wner and ask them to fix it.
>
> we own the IP addresses but they are not in use at the moment, hence the
> missing ptr.
> Im just wondering why it looks up those IP addresses when we use httpd
> (via php and sendmail) to send emails?
>
Well, someone is using them, or sendmail wouldn't know about them.
Gerald
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