From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 25 14:43:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03402 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:43:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03397 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:43:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA25267 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 09:42:18 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199807252142.JAA25267@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 09:42:18 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: named vs hosts (and qpopper) Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running a mini-DNS system here on my subnet at home. I'm trying to sort out the DNS issues associated with the qpopper message 'unable to get canonical name of client'. 1 - My /etc/host.conf file contains 'bind' before 'host'. I think this point explains the qpopper message does not appear if the client information is contained in /etc/hosts. If I remove the entry from /etc/host, the message returns. Is my thinking correct here? 2 - My theory is that if my DNS is set correctly, qpopper should be able to get the information it needs without resorting to the /etc/hosts file. Am I correct? 3 - Any suggestion as to what to try next? -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message