Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:18:37 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.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.3.96.980204091711.16151A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980204144059.0093b100@peace.com.my>
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, chas wrote:
> >> 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 ?
Convince the ISP to fix his reverse DNS resolution.
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