Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:10:01PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote:
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> 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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