At 12:33 PM 1/2/02, Gregory Hicks wrote: > > From: "Fred G Guiliano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:03:03 -0500 > > > > Hi All, > > > > I see at the the qualcomm site this particular explanation of the > > following error: > > > > What does the error message Unable to get canonical name of client > > mean? >[...snip...] > > Qpopper allows you to turn off this check if you like. Qpopper also > > includes the IP address of the client in the log message, to make it > > easier to check its DNS entries. > > > > In this explanation, it says that Qpopper allows you to turn off this > > check. That's nice, but my question is HOW do you turn this check > > off? I didn't see anything in the manual on how to do this (It maybe > > there but I guess I'm not seeing it). Any help would be appreciated! > >Although qpopper may allow you to turn the check off (and no, I don't >know the option, but it is in the docs or the config options), it seems >to me - and this is a 'hostmaster' and 'postmaster' speaking - that if >you cannot reverse look up one of your own hosts, you *might* have a DNS >config issue... That should be solved...
Think "travelling user." You'll never have control over everything. On every version of qpopper I install, I comment out the code that sprays the error message about DNS lookup. I don't want to turn the option off, though, since if the name DOES resolve, I want to find out what it is and log it. Next time I get a chance to do some work on the qpopper code (will probably be soon) I think I'll take a look at this. Simply removing this message entirely may be the best answer. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com
