Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:51:20PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote:
> 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
My last message crossed with this one, I didn't realize you'd discovered
that the address was your machine's. If you can rely on keeping the
address, you can put whatever you like in /etc/hosts
192.168.1.45 debiansystem
But this isn't the answer, the answer is to properly configure the
service that's causing the error, probably by having it reference
'localhost'.
HTH, Paul
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