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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:11:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Rick Knebel <rknebel@csrlink.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fetchmail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980128121049.18405F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980126130909.006f145c@mail.csrlink.net>

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On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Rick Knebel wrote:

> Hi,
> Whenever I try to use the fetchmail that came with freebsd 2.2.5 I get the
> error message gethostbyname failed.
> I get the same message whenever I use the screensaver lock in afterstep. If
> I use the version of fetchmail that came with 2.2.2 everything works fine.
> Does this make sense to anyone?

gethostbyname() is a function used to do nameserver lookups.  Check your
nameserver setup in /etc/resolv.conf.

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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