Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 Unable to get canonical name of client

[Peter Low <peterlow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:52 AM 1/10/02 -0500, you wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Paul Alcock wrote:
>
> > I love it when folks post messages that lead me to a problem (sic)
> > Ok, I took a look at the /var/log/maillog with tail and found
> > quite a lot of msg's stating....
> > Jan 10 09:22:34 raq2 in.qpopper[29154]: (v?)
> > Unable to get canonical name of client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: Unknown host (1)
> > [pop_init.c:401]
> >
> > ( I have replaced my PC IP with xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in the line above)
> >
> > Is this a Problem?
>
> Not really, it's a client problem, the client IP address doesn't reverse
> to a domain name, this will only affect the client's ability to receive
> mail, not the server's ability to send it. And it probably won't even do
> that, other than making it slow.

Is there any way to fix/address this problem?  I've seen suggestions of 
adding to the hosts file, but have not gotten that to work.

Thanks,

Peter