<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have added lines of the form<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV>24.3.20.172.in-arpa.addr alvin</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>to the hosts file, and the line</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>local=/0.0.20.172.in-arpa.addr/</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>to implement rDNS lookups, but I get entries of the form "dnsmasq: bad address at /etc/dnsmasq_hosts line 19" in the log file on startup. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But: the reverse lookup works --</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>$ dig -x 172.20.3.24</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> -x 172.20.3.24</DIV><DIV>;; global options: printcmd</DIV><DIV>;; Got answer:</DIV><DIV>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34076</DIV><DIV>;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>;; QUESTION SECTION:</DIV><DIV>;24.3.20.172.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>;; ANSWER SECTION:</DIV><DIV>24.3.20.172.in-addr.arpa. 0 IN PTR alvin.haskins.yale.edu.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>;; Query time: 8 msec</DIV><DIV>;; SERVER: 172.20.3.28#53(172.20.3.28)</DIV><DIV>;; WHEN: Fri Oct 6 10:02:51 2006</DIV><DIV>;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 78</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Why the log entry?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">RSC</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">-------</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Haskins Laboratories / (203) 865-6163 X 275 /<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>FAX (203) 865-8963</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>