From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Sep 15 10:48:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA12686 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axe.cablenet.net (axe.cablenet.net [194.154.36.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA12673 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:48:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axe (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axe.cablenet.net (8.8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA27697; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 18:44:51 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <341D7412.2781E494@cablenet.net> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 18:44:50 +0100 From: Damian Hamill Organization: CableNet Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Brown CC: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: QPopper -- Host Name Lookup References: <199709151638.000025EE@intra.vafibre.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Brown wrote: > > Can someone tell me how to turn this feature off. I keep getting an error > everytime someone checks their mail that say's "unable to get canonical name > of client..." > > Thanks This isn't your problem. You are getting this error message because reverse DNS lookup of the client's IP address failed. If you are an ISP and your client's are using dynamic IPs then add a mapping to something so that their dynamic IP resolves (like ppp1.vafibre.com for example). regards damian -- * Damian Hamill M.D. damian@cablenet.net * CableNet & The Landscape Channel * http://www.cablenet.net/ http://www.landscapetv.com/