From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 3 22:33:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA26684 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:33:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dove.peace.com.my (peace.com.my [202.184.153.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA26632 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:33:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from panda@peace.com.my) Received: from lovebox (love.com.my [202.184.153.17]) by dove.peace.com.my (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA14627 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 14:18:33 +0800 (SGT) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 14:18:33 +0800 (SGT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980204144059.0093b100@peace.com.my> X-Sender: panda@peace.com.my (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: chas Subject: why must POP clients have a resolvable IP ? what about dynamic IPs ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I'm sure we've all seen this error message before : >> popper[14612]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0 And checking the archives again, the explanation is : [snip] "This means it can't get the domain name of the IP that is using popper. Try doing a nslookup on the IP, if it fails that is the reason." "You need to put the IP address of your client in the named or hosts." [/snip] But the people who are collecting their mail via POP from our mailserver are accessing the web through the local ISP (which is not us.) and hence they have dynamic IPs. Is there any way to solve this in such circumstances ? Thank you very much, chas