Re: [cobalt-users] Problems with POP service

[John Rood <john@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, LaacZ wrote:

> 
> On my RaQ3 there is a lot of entries in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jul 20 13:17:40 home in.qpopper[10171]: (v2.53) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0
> Jul 20 13:17:40 home in.qpopper[10172]: (v2.53) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0
> Jul 20 13:17:40 home in.qpopper[10173]: (v2.53) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0
> 
> pop service is down. what could be a possible reason?
> 

This means that when qpopper tried to do a reverse lookup on the
connecting ip address, it failed to do so. This probably indicates a
missing PTR record or a dns server that's down

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