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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!metro.atlanta.com!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newspeer.santaclara.agis.net!agis!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!fred From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: Popper and canonical name error Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 21:24:26 -0700 Organization: Lightside, Inc. - Internet Access Lines: 22 Message-ID: <fred-ya02408000R0805972124260001@news.lightside.com> References: <33710fe5.47191390@news.aisp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dcs72.dcs-chico.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-no-archive: yes X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.4.0 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40617 In article <33710fe5.47191390@news.aisp.net>, rmorel@morelr.com (Rick Morel) wrote: > I'm running popper and everytime a user checks email, I get this error > on the screen and in the log. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > May 7 18:27:13 m20 popper[1552]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name > of client, err = 0 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Does anyway know how to stop this? Any help would be greatly > appreciated. I've searched all the docs I can find with no luck. This means that the client's IP address has no reverse DNS (in-addr.arpa) entry. You need to make a reverse DNS entry for every IP address that might try to pick up mail from your server. -- http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/ "Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party