Tom,
try adding 'domain <yourdomain.net>' to the /etc/resolv.conf.
you say nslookup fails - what is the error message? host name lookup
failed? server timeout?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Diehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Knight French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Could not reverse map address
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, David Knight French wrote:
>
> > See embedded responses...
> >
> > You can check this by running nslookup on the TO machine in question.
Pick an
> > ip address in your local net, best would be one of the failing FROM
machines
> > that is not logging into the TO machine:
> >
> > nslookup 123.123.123.123
>
> This fails. It looks like the IPS's DNS is hosed. nslookup machine.name is
ok
> but a lookup with the ip does not even return a machine name. resolv.conf
looks
> ok. The only thing in it is a search line and 2 nameserver lines and they
are
> pointing to the correct nameservers.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> --
> ......Tom ATA100 is another testimony to the fact that pigs can be
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] made to fly given sufficient thrust (to borrow an RFC)
> Alan Cox lkml 11 Jan 01
