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From: krishna@DIGOXIN.PHARMACY.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Dileep Krishna)
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Date: 4 Jun 91 20:39:21 GMT
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Ian Hoyle writes:

>This indicates that the machines's in-addr.arpa name has not been found in
>the named.rev file ie. it can't match the name it thinks it is to that
>returned when the window server does an initial gethostbyaddr call when it
>starts up.


However this does not explain why I have been having the same problem even though I have configured the machine as a client only. The manual says that named.rev is mandatory for primary servers, by which I understood that it was not needed with my machine as a client. 
Is this a basic misunderstanding? I would be most appreciative of some answers that would help me whittle down my humungous /etc/hosts file.

Thanks,

Dileep Krishna

Ohio State University.