Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:44:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Daryl Tilley <dtilley@birchrun.k12.mi.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Troubles with POP3 Mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904211441240.27954-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <371E394A.513A8343@birchrun.k12.mi.us>
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Daryl Tilley wrote: > We have begun having problems with accessing our E-mail from our POP3 > clients (netscape and eudora) yesturday. Up until then everything had > worked fine, and there have been no changes to any of our systems that > I am aware of. > > Our configuration: > > -We are running Windows 95 Clients using private TCP/IP addresses > attached to a Novell file server > -We are running Novell BorderManager 2.1 as our firewall > - BSD Unix 2.1 > - Cisco Router > > When attempting to retrieve our mail from inside the firewall, the > request to connect to the server would time out, and the following > message would appear on the Unix server: > "April 21 13:10:26 webserver popper [8415] warning: can't verify > hostname: gethostbyname (read-rfc1918-for-details.iana.net) failed" > > However, we could retrieve the mail from a dial-up account on the > internet.with no problems. Someone is playing with your network. RFC1918 specifies the reserved IP blocks that are reserved for non-routable nets. From your descriptions, though, it sounds like your DNS server has failed. Check your DNS settings. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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