Gethostbyaddr errors

[Harold Pritchett]

>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.

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