Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:56:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: beaupran <root@umontreal.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail on remote POP3 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511105546.1090J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511083704.1066A-100000@outpost.nada.org>
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On Mon, 11 May 1998, beaupran wrote: > Hi! > > I recently set up an Internet connection via ppp. So I got this daemon > running back there, I can do ftp, lynx, send mail, etc. But, when I try to > get mail on the remote host (which uses POP3), I get te following error > message after a few seconds: > > gethostbyname failed for outpost.nada.org (which is my hostname) Your computer's name doesn't exist in the DNS. Try adding it to /etc/hosts. 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
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