From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 06:19:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22723 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 06:19:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22681 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 06:19:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA16160; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:18:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:18:37 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: chas cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why must POP clients have a resolvable IP ? what about dynamic IPs ? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980204144059.0093b100@peace.com.my> 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 X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null --------------------------------------------------------------------------