From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 3 12:40:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13784 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13649 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from font@Jupiter.Mcs.Net) Received: from Jupiter.Mcs.Net (font@Jupiter.mcs.net [192.160.127.88]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id OAA23899; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:39:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (font@localhost) by Jupiter.Mcs.Net (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id OAA08007; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:39:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:39:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Font To: Mike Alich cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qpopper In-Reply-To: <35755079.3894@cyber-com.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 On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Mike Alich wrote: > I keep getting this error message with qpopper: > > Jun 2 14:07:13 maverick popper[11944]: (v2.4b2) Unable to get canonical > name of cli > ent, err = 0 The daemon checks what the name of the client is by using the reverse mapping for the IP address via DNS (PTR record). Then it checks the forward mapping for the name returned via DNS (A record). These must match. Apparently the client which is trying to connect either isn't in DNS, or isn't in the reverse mapping. Check your DNS server, and check that the FreeBSD box knows where it is (/etc/resolv.conf). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message