From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 19 00:16:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA17854 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA17841 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02764; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:16:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:16:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Scott I. Remick" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to SOLVE popper error In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970814102300.0078b9d0@computeralt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Scott I. Remick wrote: > Ok... I know that the following error message from QPOP has come up here > before. > > server popper[21648]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0 > > I know what it means and I've tried looking up the man page but for some > reason, it doesn't exist on my system, nor on the HTML version at > www.freebsd.org. What I really want to know is, how to make it go away? One of your clients doesn't have a reverse nameserver entry. Take a look in /var/log/maillog and see if you can figure out who this was by IP, then talk with your hostmaster / DNS manager and make sure the IP address has a reverse entry. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo