On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 09:07, Robert P. Goldman wrote: > > I have a small home network behind a firewall, so small that I haven't > thought it worth having a name server. My desktop machine runs > sendmail (I know, I should probably change to qmail or postfix, but > that seems like a lot of effort for low payoff on a single-user > machine) and keeps putting into my system logs a record that a > gethostbyaddr call on its own (unroutable) address has failed. make an entry in your hosts file for the machine itself 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.55 this.machine.name this # make the IP match eth0 address # and this.machine.name match what you set the machines hostname too > I'm assuming I don't need to worry about this. Is there any way to > kill the error message (or should I just let it happen and filter it > out of my log-watcher)? > > Thanks, > r > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Ben Lutgens Sistina Software Inc. Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020109/bf84ba58/attachment.pgp