Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:30:31 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: jack@germanium.xtalwind.net (jack) Cc: panda@peace.com.my, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why must POP clients have a resolvable IP ? what about dynamic IPs ? Message-ID: <199802041530.JAA03752@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204091711.16151A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> from jack at "Feb 4, 98 09:18:37 am"
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In a previous message, jack said: > 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. There's nothing that says that they have to resolve to the real name. They should be able to put up a fake reverse table at the vary least. Or perhaps you could just so it resolves. -- If the good lord had wanted man to stay on the ground, he would have given us roots.
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