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Date:      Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:16:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Scott I. Remick" <scott@computeralt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to SOLVE popper error
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970819001518.2698G-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970814102300.0078b9d0@computeralt.com>

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On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Scott I. Remick wrote:

> Ok... I know that the following error message from QPOP has come up here
> before. 
> 
> server popper[21648]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0
> 
> I know what it means and I've tried looking up the man page but for some
> reason, it doesn't exist on my system, nor on the HTML version at
> www.freebsd.org.  What I really want to know is, how to make it go away?

One of your clients doesn't have a reverse nameserver entry.  Take a look
in /var/log/maillog and see if you can figure out who this was by IP,
then talk with your hostmaster / DNS manager and make sure the IP address
has a reverse entry.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail    | Death to Cyberpromo




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