Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

[Jimmy Richards <longshot@c243491-a.aurora1.co.home.com>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:40:49AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:32:35PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> > Can you resolve 192.168.1.45 into a fully qualified
> > domain name?
> 
> Errr... excuse the cluelessness, but how would you recommend
> doing that?  I don't run local DNS, and the DNS entries in 
> /etc/resolv.conf
> point to my ISPs nameservers on the other side of my firewall.
> Is this a problem because my firewall assigns IP addresses to
> the workstations on my LAN via DHCP?  I'm still learning lots
> of things about networking...

	Hi Mike,

	Try   dig -x 192.168.1.45

	Jim

> TIA,
> Mike
> 
> 
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