From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 02:17:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04060 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:17:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03791 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:17:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA03346; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 01:13:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 01:13:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Bill Farina cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Qualcomm POP mail problem In-Reply-To: <199807050809.DAA00512@ns.venture-1.com> 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 On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Bill Farina wrote: > Has anyone run into this error message? It appears in my /var/log/messages > file every time someone checks mail using qpopper. What specific command > lines go in what file to nix it. > > > Jul 5 02:59:20 ns popper[487]: (v2.41beta1) Unable to get canonical name > of client, err > = 60 This means that the client's IP address couldn't be reverse-mapped to it's hostname. DANGER: 2.41b1 has KNOWN SECURITY HOLES. UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY. You may want tot take this opportunity to review the Washington University or CUCI POP packages -- these are popular alternatives to the bug-ridden qpopper. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message