Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 01:12:54AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: Sorry to go off on a tangle, but how is all this supposed to be working? I mean, if I have /etc/hosts like: 192.168.1.1 host.local.domain host ip lookup works: $ host 192.168.1.1 Name: host.local.domain

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 02:30:22PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: ... What does it look like when you strace host 192.168.1.1? It should be showing access to /etc/hosts, if you have order hosts,bind in /etc/resolv.conf. I think you mean /etc/host.conf? As I said host 192.168.1.1 works, and

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:13:09PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 02:30:22PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: ... What does it look like when you strace host 192.168.1.1? It should be showing access to /etc/hosts, if you have order hosts,bind in /etc/resolv.conf. I

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:52:32PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: ... Try this instead: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Socket; print scalar gethostbyaddr(inet_aton($ARGV[0]), AF_INET) || (?), \n; works as expected, gethostbyname works too. (I tried it in python, there I know what is done, quite unlike

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:08:32PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: ... What does `hostname` say ? and whats in /etc/hosts ? $ hostname animus cat /etc/hosts (edited) 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 animus.localnet animus news.localnet smtp.localnet imap.localnet

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:08:19PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: What does `hostname` say ? and whats in /etc/hosts ? $ hostname animus Does /etc/resolv.conf have a domain (or search) directive ? yes, tried it with either one of

sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. I am getting a slew of entries in /var/log/mail/mail.warn that look like this: Jul 13 10:20:01 BananaSlug sm-msp-queue[1116]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.45) failed: 1 Jul 13 10:30:01 BananaSlug sm-msp-queue[1150]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.45) failed: 1 Jul 13 10:40:01 BananaSlug

RE: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
Can you resolve 192.168.1.45 into a fully qualified domain name? j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mike Pfleger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 1:17 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:32:35PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Can you resolve 192.168.1.45 into a fully qualified domain name? Errr... excuse the cluelessness, but how would you recommend doing that? I don't run local DNS, and the DNS entries in /etc/resolv.conf point to my ISPs nameservers

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:40:49AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:32:35PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Can you resolve 192.168.1.45 into a fully qualified domain name? Errr... excuse the cluelessness, but how would you recommend doing that? I don't run local DNS,

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Mike Pfleger
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:

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread pmackinney
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:10:01PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:40:49AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:32:35PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Can you resolve 192.168.1.45 into a fully qualified domain name? Errr... excuse the

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Paul Mackinney
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;

RE: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 1:41 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:32:35PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Can you resolve 192.168.1.45 into a fully qualified domain name? Errr... excuse the cluelessness, but how would you

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:46:24PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Either set up a DNS server for your local network or add some entries to /etc/hosts. sendmail likes to be able to resolve its IP address into an FQDN and will bitch if it can't. Sorry to go off on a tangle, but how is all this