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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 12:04:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: abbott on blue <jabbott@blue.pca.state.mn.us>
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Subject: Re: Never seen, new error in log file - need help
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To me that looks like someone is using your pop daemon from an IP that
doesnt have proper in-addr.arpa

On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, abbott on blue wrote:

> 
> I have had this system running for several months and suddenly I am getting
> a log full of this error.  This is FreeBSD 2.2.1.  I am not sure what
> version of popper.
>  
> Oct  8 06:07:03 blue popper[10481]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of
> client, err = 0
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> --ja
>