From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 22:27:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13652 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:27:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13577 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:27:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA17042; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:27:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:27:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: David Kelly cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why must POP clients have a resolvable IP ? what about dynamic IPs ? In-Reply-To: <199802050108.TAA06403@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, David Kelly wrote: > > I'm sure we've all seen this error message before : > > > > >> popper[14612]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0 > > > > And checking the archives again, the explanation is : > > > > [snip] > > "This means it can't get the domain name of the IP that is using popper. > > Try doing a nslookup on the IP, if it fails that is the reason." > > "You need to put the IP address of your client in the named or hosts." > > [/snip] > > My employer refuses to make entries in their DNS server for internal > machines which are not visible to the outside world. Then why not point the Irix box at a real nameserver outside the net? Or is that blocked? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major