On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:07:16AM -0600, Robert P. Goldman wrote:
> I have a small home network behind a firewall, so small that I haven't
> thought it worth having a name server.  My desktop machine runs
> sendmail (I know, I should probably change to qmail or postfix, but
> that seems like a lot of effort for low payoff on a single-user
> machine) and keeps putting into my system logs a record that a
> gethostbyaddr call on its own (unroutable) address has failed.

Add a line to /etc/hosts:

192.168.1.1        myhostname

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