On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:24:33AM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So this is interesting. I've had fetchmail running as a daemon for about 2 > weeks, and I wake up this morning and find that I have zero email waiting. I > check the log, and I see entries like this: > > fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying mail.storm.ca (protocol POP3) at Wed, 18 Oct 2000 > 07:20:01 -0400 (EDT) > fetchmail: fetchmail: POP3 connection to mail.storm.ca failed: temporary name > server error. > > So I do an nslookup on storm's mail server, and it's there. So, I kill > fetchmail and restart it, and find 400+ messages waiting. > > Anyone know what would cause this "temporary name server error?" > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount > of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX > PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html >
it means either the name was not resolving at the exact time and date OR that it timedout while checking for mails. sounds crazy i know but that's my experience with fetchmail having used it for over two years now. anyway, i'm open to more reasonable explanation. -- Who's watching the watchmen? Key fingerprint = E619 726E 3815 7A48 EAC7 E49F DF93 4E33 B069 0883
