An Error of Gethostbyaddr

David Collier-Brown David.Collier-Brown at canada.sun.com
Fri Nov 3 13:09:58 GMT 2000


  You actually should have asked this question in the samba at samba.org
mailing list: samba-technical is about developing new version of 
Samba.

  However,
 
> [2000/11/02 10:49:48, 1] lib/util_sock.c:client_name(1030)
>    Gethostbyaddr failed for 192.168.0.50
> [2000/11/02 10:49:52, 1] lib/util_sock.c:client_name(1030)
>    Gethostbyaddr failed for 192.168.0.50

	means that your server can't look up the host names
	that correspond to those ip addresses. You need
	to have your sysadmin ensure dns works on the machine.

--dave
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