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From: dorian@chinook.halcyon.com (Aaron Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Syslog question!
Date: 3 May 1996 18:53:45 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services
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I've been crashing unexpectantly lately, and was wondering what was
causing it.  The only thing in my syslog that I can't understand is this
message:

May  3 00:25:09 www httpd: gethostby*.gethostanswer: asked for
"40.61.32.128.in-
addr.arpa", got "40.0.61.32.128.in-addr.arpa"
May  3 00:25:29 www last message repeated 9 times
May  3 00:27:36 www last message repeated 27 times

Does anyone know what this is, if it's dangerous, or how to fix it?
Thanks for any help!

Aaron Mitchell
dorian@halcyon.com