Re: sendmail - adding an interface

From: Ian D. Bjorhovde (ianbjor@MOBILEAUDIO.COM)
Date: Mon Apr 05 2004 - 09:54:07 EDT

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Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I added another ethernet-interface to a node.
> Now I get this every time email is send:
>
> Apr 5 11:25:31 sbe2573 sendmail[46104]: gethostbyaddr(10.79.99.66)
> failed: 1
>
> 10.79.99.66 is the IP of the new interface.
>
> How can I tell sendmail to ignore it / how do I get rid of this message?
>

I think you need to add an entry (fully qualified host name) to your
/etc/hosts file for this IP address.

Good luck,

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