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From: piet@cwi.nl (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.64 under Sun OS 4.1
Message-ID: <2113@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 12 Sep 90 13:06:52 GMT
References: <285@asihub.AUTOSYS.COM>
Sender: news@cwi.nl
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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	>Here is a sample telnet connection which demonstrates the problem:
	>    220 guava.autosys.com Sendmail 5.64+/ease-smail2.5/evision: 2.5 ready ...
	>    250 Hello [192.5.98.42], why do you call yourself dogwood.autosys.com?
	>
	>I ran the server in dbx and it appears that the 'gethostbyaddr' call
	>is failing in daemon.c
Nothing wrong with sendmail; it's just that the server for
98.5.192.in-addr.arpa isn't known to the root servers.

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	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam	(piet@cwi.nl)