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Old 05-16-2007
[ID 702911 mail.warning] gethostbyaddr(ip address) failed
Dear Gurus,

was searching the forum for some related topic for this but couldn't find much.

any experts or anyone who has face such below error messages before? and what does those error messages mean? was trying to do up a error message template for my user's reference.

sendmail[9422]: [ID 702911 mail.warning] gethostbyaddr(ip address) failed: 1
pty.telnetd[17129]: [ID 624339 daemon.error] signal(15) - aborting

many thanks.


wee Smilie
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Old 05-17-2007
This happens when someone is trying to send a mail. It seems that one of more of the IP addresses configured on your system does not have a matching entry in /etc/hosts. sendmail does a "reverse" lookup (input IP address, output hostname) when it starts up, generating the error. You can either fix /etc/host and your Nameservice, or ignore the message.
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