From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 12:12:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chimera.noanet.net (chimera.noanet.net [66.119.192.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A7A37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:12:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [66.119.205.82] (mks-733.noanet.net [66.119.205.82]) by chimera.noanet.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g24KAJQf035286 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:10:23 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 12:12:26 -0800 Subject: Re: Unknown hosts on POP3 From: Michael Smith To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020304132342.011ce1b8@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can't look up the IP address and resolve it to a name. Server: hydra.noanet.net Address: 66.119.192.1 *** hydra.noanet.net can't find 213.156.144.200: Non-existent host/domain Mike On 3/4/02 11:23 AM, "Server Admin" espoused: > Recently configured sendmail and POP3 (qpopper). Seems to be working okay > for the most part except the logs keep showing the errors below and > wondered what more I need to do to configure things to eliminate the > errors...??? I know the host (a friendly ISP) and he is using an email > account on this server. Is it a reverse DNS problem perhaps? The same ocurs > from another ISP he uses to access/send the mails. It's a couple of Russian > ISPs that he uses and he is a member of our staff and a user on the > server.... also, thought maybe his ISPs were blocking the reverse DNS...? > > ...any ideas, please...?? > > Mar 4 03:06:56 sage-one popper[18931]: (v2.53) Unable to get canonical > name of client 213.156.144.200: Unknown host > Mar 4 06:46:24 sage-one popper[20033]: (v2.53) Unable to get canonical > name of client 213.156.144.204: Unknown host > Mar 4 07:45:38 sage-one popper[20308]: (v2.53) Unable to get canonical > name of client 213.156.144.196: Unknown host > Mar 4 08:42:40 sage-one popper[20594]: (v2.53) Unable to get canonical > name of client 213.156.144.203: Unknown host > > .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ > > Best regards, > > Jack L. Stone > Server Admin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message