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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:17:47 -0600 (MDT)
From: Sasha Egan <wildcard@dax.belen.k12.nm.us>
To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: qualcomm popper
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On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Dean Hollister wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Sasha Egan wrote:
> 
> > Anyway I am getting wierd errors from one of my clients to the effect of
> > "no RCPT(recipient)", which there is, I have double checked and it's not
> > my sendmail cause I can send it manually by telneting to port 25.
> > But here is where my real concern starts to pop up.  On the server I get
> > an error so frequently that it's flooding my logs.
> > 
> > <date and time> dax popper[pid]: (v2.53) Unable to get cannonical name of
> > client, err = 0
> > 
> > I don't even know what it means...if someone does could you drop me a line
> > please?
> 
> Whenever a client connects to popper, it does a lookup on the IP of the
> connecting host. The above error just means a DNS lookup failed. Not
> critical to the operation of popper. There may be a way to disable it?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> d.

Does a lookup on the client or the server that has the popper on it? i.e.
nslookup wrkstation1.blah.com or nslookup mailsvr1.blah.com



> 
> +-------------------------------------------------------+
> | Dean Hollister,           | dean@mushka.ml.org        |
> | Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au      |
> +-------------------------------------------------------+
> 


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