From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 10:56:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17884 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 10:56:29 -0700 (PDT) (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 KAA17873 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 10:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01151; Mon, 11 May 1998 10:56:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:56:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: beaupran cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail on remote POP3 In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 11 May 1998, beaupran wrote: > Hi! > > I recently set up an Internet connection via ppp. So I got this daemon > running back there, I can do ftp, lynx, send mail, etc. But, when I try to > get mail on the remote host (which uses POP3), I get te following error > message after a few seconds: > > gethostbyname failed for outpost.nada.org (which is my hostname) Your computer's name doesn't exist in the DNS. Try adding it to /etc/hosts. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message