From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 5:12: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4813A14EE2 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 05:12:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA22560; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 07:12:07 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 07:12:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Langa Kentane Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: popper problem [newbie] In-Reply-To: <94215.938511987@axl.noc.iafrica.com> 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 Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:18:56 +0200, "Langa Kentane" wrote: > > > May 9 18:43:04 ewok popper[4266]: (v2.53) Unable to get canonical name of > > client, err = 60 > > Without knowing what popper program you're using (Qualcom?), all I can > tell you is that the program probably tried and failed to lookup the DNS > PTR record for the connecting host's IP address. > Yes, this is qpopper and it's a PTR lookup failure. Langa, this question is covered in the qpopper FAQ (http://www.eudora.com/free/servers.html). > > If valid client hosts don't have PTR records and you can't or don't want > to add them, you should read the documentation for your popper to find a > way to turn off DNS reverse-resolution. > Install the latest qpopper 3.0 beta and run it with -R. 2.53 doesn't support this option. I've found 3.0b18 to be very stable and reliable. Or, as Sheldon said, add PTR records for the offending addresses if they're in your own address space. -ac -- Alex Charalabidis WebNet Memphis (901) 432-6000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message