elliott@shiva.trl.oz.au (Paul Elliott) (03/19/91)
After installing YP (NIS) on our network of SUNs the machine that does the NIS serving has the following type of error messages reported by syslog: nres_gethostbyaddr: ilium.trl.OZ.AU != 137.147.20.137 This message is repeated for various other machines. The internet address as shown is correct for the machine. We also started using the Domain name service at the same time. All machines in our group are running SunOS 4.1 or later. The master server is a Sun 3/260 running 4.1 and is also a gateway machine. The slave server is a Sun4/390 running 4.1.1 and is the server that is returned by ypwhich (is faster than the 3/260). Apart from the error messages everything works fine. For example, rlogin to ilium is no problem. Any help will be most appreciated. Reply via email please and I will summarize to the net. Thanks, Paul. ACSnet:paul@trlamct.trl.OZ.AU FAX: 61 3 543 8863
p.elliott@trl.oz.au (Paul Elliott) (03/26/91)
From article <1963@brchh104.bnr.ca>, by elliott@shiva.trl.oz.au (Paul Elliott): > After installing YP (NIS) on our network of SUNs the machine that does the > NIS serving has the following type of error messages reported by syslog: > > nres_gethostbyaddr: ilium.trl.OZ.AU != 137.147.20.137 I am replying to my own posting. I received some helpful email replies. The problem is a bug in ypserv. There is a bug fix available from Sun which seems to work. All the fix does is suppresses the error messages. Patch-ID# 100141-02 Keywords: NIS DNS nres_gethostbyaddr messages console Synopsis: SunOS 4.1: nres_gethostbyaddr logs misleading messages to console Date: 11-Jan-91 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: SVR4 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 Thanks to those people who replied. Paul Elliott. AI Systems Telecom Australia Research Labs ACSnet: p.elliott@trl.OZ.AU FAX: 61 3 543 8863 ARPA: p.elliott%trl.OZ.AU@uunet.uu.net PH: 61 3 541 6705 UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!trl.OZ.AU!p.elliott
HAROLD@uga.cc.uga.edu (Harold Pritchett) (04/02/91)
>After installing YP (NIS) on our network of SUNs the machine that does the >NIS serving has the following type of error messages reported by syslog: > >nres_gethostbyaddr: ilium.trl.OZ.AU != 137.147.20.137 > >This message is repeated for various other machines. The internet address >as shown is correct for the machine. We also started using the Domain >name service at the same time. I am seeing exactly the same thing here on a Sparc 1+ running 4.1.1. This machine, however is NOT running NIS. It is a secondary domain name server and the messages are as follows: syslog: gethostbyaddr: vtvm2.cc.vt.edu != 128.173.4.2 Again, this is the correct address for vtvm2. I have seen a fix for NIS for this problem, but have never seen it reported on a non NIS machine. Harold C Pritchett | BITNET: HAROLD@UGA BITNET TechRep | ARPA: harold@uga.cc.uga.edu The University of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602 | fido: 1:370/60 (404) 542-3135 | Bbs: SYSOP at (404) 354-0817