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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: connical
Date: 31 Jan 1997 13:52:29 GMT
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"Kerry T. Philben" <harvey@harenet.net> wrote:

> Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0
> 
> Can anyone tell me what this means?

You don't mention the context, but it sounds like somebody tries to
gethostbyaddress() an IP address, and doesn't get an answer for this.
Or even, he does a gethostbyname(), and doesn't get a result.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j