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Sendmail gethostbyaddr(10.39.4.5) failed: 1

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I have this error meessages inside my mail.log
how do i rectify the gethostbyaddr error away?
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myserver sendmail[13438]: My unqualified host name (myserver-el1)
unknown; sleeping for retry
Aug 9 18:59:01 myserver sendmail[13438]: unable to qualify my own domain name (myserver-el1) -- using short name
Aug 9 18:59:01 myserver sendmail[13438]: gethostbyaddr(10.39.4.5) failed: 1
 
Your server is maybe not seeing the DNS server of the resolve.conf file is not configured correctly also check your /etc/hosts file.
 
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