I'm seeing a lot of these types of messages in my logcheck output. We've noticed a 
slow down in the server as well.  I have a couple of questions:

1) are these anything to worry about?

2) will the attempts by the server to resolve the unresolvable slow things down?

3) if the answer to 2 is yes, is there a way to turn off the check and is that 
advisable?

The background is that I think I tweaked some settings that had to do with making sure 
that when folks said they were coming from a particular place that they really were.  
Unfortunately I neglected to take good notes so I don't know what I tweaked (some TCP 
file where you set the contents to 0 or 1 strikes a bell).  The server is very slow 
and I wanted to see if we could speed things up a bit.

Thanks,
Paul


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