Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 14:36:59 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: chas <panda@peace.com.my> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why must POP clients have a resolvable IP ? what about dynamic IPs ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980204143638.29853A-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980204144059.0093b100@peace.com.my>
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It doesnt have to do with dynamic IPs - it has to do with that ISP failing to set up proper in-addr.arpa in his name service. On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, chas 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] > > But the people who are collecting their mail via POP from our mailserver > are accessing the web through the local ISP (which is not us.) and hence > they have dynamic IPs. Is there any way to solve this in such circumstances ? > > Thank you very much, > > chas > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Hovey Chief Engineer BuffNET More Than Just a Connection! ------------------------------------------------------------------
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