-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 31 Jan 2003 23:35:33 +1300, Roland Hill wrote:
> I have started getting the following error in the fetchmail log: > > fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) > > The consequence is that mail is not retrieved for my home network. > > My modem is configured to demand dial (via wvdial) and I usually start > fetchmail with fetchmail -d 7200. > > I have read the man pages and it appears that fetchmail "times out" > while waiting for my ISP to be connected and the DNS resolved. It > assumes that the POP server does not exist. > > If the connection is already up, then fetchmail works as intended. > > My suspicion is that resolving my ISP's DNS is taking a little longer > due to my primary DNS pointing to my DNS cache and my secondary DNS > pointing to my ISP. This slight delay appears to hang fetchmail. I have > had fetchmail working perfectly and the implementation of DNS cache is > the only thing I can think of that I have configured recently that may > cause a problem. > > As a new user I would appreciate any ideas on how I could solve this > problem. Can fetchmail be "told" to wait longer before hanging? Just curious, is this a case where echo "2" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr or sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_dynaddr=2 (and a corresponding entry in /etc/sysctl.conf) would help? - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+PkEq0iMVcrivHFQRAsjlAJ475NnawtDLehmzy1whe5jcLerXRACfYuQN Abs50PTp6yywyWHDPZFPpGs= =xdlN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
