Gethostbyaddr failed

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Thu Jun 29 18:23:46 GMT 2000


John Kuhn wrote:
> 
> can someone with more samba knowledge then me tell me 
> what this means in my log file?
> 
> [2000/06/28 16:37:31, 1] lib/util_sock.c:client_name(997)
>   Gethostbyaddr failed for 192.168.0.1

Most likely that 192.168.0.1 is not in /etc/hosts or in DNS
(which it shouldn't be in DNS anyways unless you have a 
local, isolated DNS server) or you don't have 
/etc/resolv.conf configured correctly on your Samba server).






Cheers,
jerry
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