From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 16:30:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18656 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:30:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18613 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:30:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA07678 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 01:23:36 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA03469; 05 Feb 98 01:22:00 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 04 Feb 98 22:46:05 +0100 Subject: why must POP clients have a resolvable IP ? what about dynamic IPs Message-ID: References: <3.0.32.19980204144059.0093b100@peace.com.my> Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari. Go for it. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" At 04 Feb 98 07:18:33 chas wrote regarding why must POP clients have a resolvable IP ? what about dynamic IPs c> I'm sure we've all seen this error message before : c> c>>> popper[14612]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of client, c> err = 0 c> c> But the people who are collecting their mail via POP from our c> mailserver are accessing the web through the local ISP (which is c> not us.) and hence they have dynamic IPs. Is there any way to c> solve this in such circumstances ? Even if they have a dynamic IP, it should resolve to something, perhaps like dialin27.some.isp some.isp really should fix their dns. But the question remains: Why does popper want to resolve the ip? Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk