From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 06:32:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA07012 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 06:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA07006 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 06:32:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id PAA25766; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:31:02 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:31:02 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Charlie Root cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error message from qpop-2.2 In-Reply-To: <199610021258.OAA01396@www.istudio.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Charlie Root wrote: > I have installed it on FreeBSD 2.1.5, and it is working nicely, from > what I can tell. > > The problem is this error message : > popper[1394]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0 > > It doesnt seem to be fatal in any way, but it's an annoyance, and > I'm curious about what causes it - can anyone give some hints? > > Thank you in advance. > > Simon Lindgren > lindgren@istudio.no > RTFM! From man 8 popper: ... The popper pro- gram initializes and verifies that the peer IP address is registered in the local domain, logging a warning message when a connection is made to a client whose IP address does not have a canonical name. For systems using BSD 4.3 bind, it also checks to see if a cannonical name lookup for the client returns the same peer IP address, logging a warning message if it does not. .... Nadav