Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:27:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why must POP clients have a resolvable IP ? what about dynamic IPs ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204222658.16875O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802050108.TAA06403@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, David Kelly wrote: > > I'm sure we've all seen this error message before : > > > > >> 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] > > My employer refuses to make entries in their DNS server for internal > machines which are not visible to the outside world. Then why not point the Irix box at a real nameserver outside the net? Or is that blocked? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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