MailScanner maillog error

[Daniel Bowen]

 Well, I have experienced a similar error showing the gethostbyaddr error, and it turned out to be that our DNS servers were not reverse resolving properly.  The problem showed up with our mailserver's own IP in the parentheses.  Check your reverse DNS resolution on the mail servers, maybe that's it.
Dan Bowen
Oak Ridge Schools TN


On Friday, March 07, 2003, at 09:11AM, John Thewlis <john at OFIZ.COM> wrote:

>Hi
>
>Many thanks for all the help on the /etc/sasldb error, it is now fixed.
>
>When looking through the MailScanner maillog, I get the following error
>message each time an email is sent through the server:-
>
>
>Mar  7 14:05:46 ns MailScanner[18807]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 3034
>bytes
>Mar  7 14:05:46 ns MailScanner[18807]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
>Mar  7 14:05:46 ns MailScanner[18807]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
>Mar  7 14:05:46 ns sendmail[29908]: gethostbyaddr(217.114.166.33) failed: 1
>Mar  7 14:05:46 ns sendmail[29908]: gethostbyaddr(217.114.166.34) failed: 1
>Mar  7 14:05:46 ns sendmail[29908]: gethostbyaddr(217.114.166.31) failed: 1
>Mar  7 14:05:46 ns sendmail[29908]: gethostbyaddr(217.114.166.91) failed: 1
>
>
>Any ideas as to how to resolve this error?
>
>Thanks
>
>John
>
>