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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: connical Date: 31 Jan 1997 13:52:29 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5cstet$454@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <01bc0e70$a77acc20$18e85aa5@pri1> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5816 "Kerry T. Philben" <harvey@harenet.net> wrote: > Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0 > > Can anyone tell me what this means? You don't mention the context, but it sounds like somebody tries to gethostbyaddress() an IP address, and doesn't get an answer for this. Or even, he does a gethostbyname(), and doesn't get a result. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j