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Date:      Tue, 3 Feb 1998 23:37:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To:        chas <panda@peace.com.my>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: why must POP clients have a resolvable IP ? what about dynamic  IPs ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980203233705.25564A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980204144059.0093b100@peace.com.my>

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> 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,

You could tell them to use a real ISP that knows how to do reverse dns. :)




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