Ever since upgrading to SunOS 4.1, we have been inundated with messages
on the console of our Internet gateway machine like
nres_gethostbyaddr: some.name.org != its.correct.IP.addr
Judging by the traffic on sun-managers, others have hit on this and have
gone crazy trying to get rid of them.
About a week ago, I received a patch from Sun to fix this. There is no
REAL problem, the messages are erroneous. The fix is a new "ypserv"
program. I have included a snippet from the README file below after the
signature.
These patches are available on smaug.cs.hope.edu (35.197.146.1) in
~ftp/pub as
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 39626 Nov 7 06:37 nres_patch_sun3.tar.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 47160 Nov 7 06:37 nres_patch_sun4.tar.Z
Each file contains the README file and an architecture-specific patch.
We've been running this for about a week with no new messages. Hope
others find this useful.
Mike Jipping
Hope College Department of Computer Science
jipping@cs.hope.edu (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE)
"Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck
is watching you."
-- Gary Larson
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Patch-ID# 100141-01
Keywords: NIS DNS nres_gethostbyaddr messages console
Synopsis: nres_gethostbyaddr logs misleading messages to console
Date: 15-Oct-90
SunOS release: 4.1
Unbundled Product:
Unbundled Release:
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1039839
Architectures for which this patch is available: sun3, sun4
Obsoleted by:
Problem Description:
DNS used in conjunction with NIS may generate syslog messages
to the console something like :
nres_gethostbyaddr: some.name.org != its.correct.IP.addr
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