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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: INN cant gethostbyaddr ??
Date: 3 Aug 1996 19:43:44 GMT
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kinsonc@asiaonline.net (Chan Kinson) wrote:

>  I am using INN1.4 in FreeBSD 2.1. I always get the message 
> "nnrpd [xxxxx]: ? cant gethostbyaddr 202.12.12.1 Undefined error: 0"
> Anybody know the reason pls mail to me kinson@resolink.com

Your resolver or DNS setup is broken.

Make sure you've got a mapping for 202.12.12.1 (e.g. in the
12.12.202.in-addr.arpa zone of DNS).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)