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Old 11-07-2008
mojoman mojoman is offline
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New to UNIX.

I saw these messages in my logs.

What do they mean? What is a forward and reverse map?

Unable to add forward map from Rogers.ga.com to 205.150.86.252: timed out
unable to add reverse map from 241.86.150.205.in-addr.arpa. to FFXXB2RNHR71.NA.XOM.COM: timed out
It was a Fedora system and I found it in /var/log/messages....
I know they are DHCP issues but I do not understand what specifically they refer to. Can someone clarify?