Related to sendmail "gethostbyaddr" error

[Jack Berger]

Have you pointed your mailserver to the new dns server? Seems to me that should fix things, since you say that if you put the IP in hosts it works ok.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Swapana Ghosh [mailto:swapana_ghosh at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:14 AM
> To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> Subject: Related to sendmail "gethostbyaddr" error
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
>     Two days back I asked a question about the sendmail 
> "gethostbyaddr"
> errors..
> 
>     Our server is Cobalt raq4r.  On this server the sendmail 
> is running.. Now
> in this server bind was running and all the domains' entries 
> with their PTRs
> were present under the bind configuration.
>  
>     Now very recently all the domains are moved to the new 
> name server and the
> zones have been deleted from this server. The problem is when 
> sendmail is
> running, for the zones which have been deleted from this 
> server, for those ip
> address sendmail log  is showing the error:::
> 
>    > > Sep  4 00:25:01 server sendmail[23133]: 
> gethostbyaddr(xxx.xxx.xx.35) 
> failed: 1
>    ...................
>    ...................
> 
>     If the IP address , i mention  in the /etc/hosts file 
> then the errors are
> not coming. But my question is for the new name server the 
> reverse PTR ,
> everything has been configured. So from this server why the 
> reverse PTR is
> being failed? From the other server it is working fine...
> 
>     So anyhow what i guess that if i can force sendmail *not 
> to check this
> server for the look up of the  PTR * then my problem can be solved...
> 
>     Need suggession /advice
> 
> Best Regards.
> -Swapna
> 
> 
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