Gethostbyaddr errors

[Paul Elliott]

>From article <1963 at brchh104.bnr.ca>, by elliott at 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
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