topic Re: Sendmail in Operating System - HP-UX

Sendmail

Anthony khan — Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:40:45 GMT

Hi Forum,

In the mail log the following message is comming since Dec, any idea where can I start digging.

Feb 14 15:37:06 Servera sendmail[493]: gethostbyaddr(ip addres) failed: 1

Thanks in advance

Re: Sendmail

Craig Rants — Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:52:01 GMT

How is your /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/resolv.conf setup? I would check those two files first to see if they are what you want and useful.

GL,
C

Re: Sendmail

Helen French — Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:52:37 GMT

Hi,

Check this out:

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=c7ebce8402142c49f4/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=500000000092459

HTH,
Shiju

Re: Sendmail

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:52:42 GMT

Hi,

Seems like a name resolution problem to me. Do a "nslookup" and make sure your ip address and system name is being resolved correctly.

nslookup
> Server_name
> Server_ip_add
> exit

hope this helps.

Regds

Re: Sendmail

richard burns — Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:43:24 GMT

Don't forget to check your /etc/hosts file and ensure the system's host name is associated to its IP. Other than that all suggestions given shoudl do the job.