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Doug Salot (Doug.Salot@mri.com)
Wed, 9 Apr 1997 00:00:22 -0700 (PDT) 

Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 00:00:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Salot <Doug.Salot@mri.com>
Subject: Re: [mSQL] "Error: Can't get hostname for your address"?
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970408235632.3790A-100000@sun243>

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Ross D. Perkins wrote:

> I keep getting the error "Can't get hostname for your address"

The program is trying to lookup the hostname based on the IP address, and
can't. You need to add the name to your reverse-DNS tables or to your
/etc/hosts file.

-- Doug

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