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Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails



On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:10:01PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote:
<SNIP>
> 	Try   dig -x 192.168.1.45

Hi Jim.

OK.  Here's the spew:

;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 55359
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;45.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.     IN      PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA.   10590   IN      SOA     blackhole.isi.edu. bmanning.isi.edu. 19971802 10800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 65 msec
;; SERVER: 24.64.223.195#53(24.64.223.195)
;; WHEN: Fri Jul 13 12:43:32 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 125

It appears that the first nameserver in resolv.conf is queried about
this.  This is what I suspected.  Since I am using dhcp-client on
this workstation, and a fireplug firewall, what do I need to do to
/etc/hosts to make it reflect the state of ifconfig (see below)?

eth0	Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:E5:FA:7C  
	inet addr:192.168.1.45  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
	UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
	RX packets:6503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	TX packets:6990 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
	RX bytes:3417730 (3.2 Mb)  TX bytes:725129 (708.1 Kb)
	Interrupt:12 Base address:0xb000 

lo	Link encap:Local Loopback  
	inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
	UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
	RX packets:2827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	TX packets:2827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
	RX bytes:675627 (659.7 Kb)  TX bytes:675627 (659.7 Kb)

TIA,
Mike



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