On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Carlyle Fitzgerald wrote:
>I have a ppp connection usable from either X or the console, but am
>unable to retrieve mail with fetchmail. My ip address is dynamic. I
>*can* retrieve mail using Netscape, but as much as I love their
>browser, I hate their mail reader. I'd like to use pine.
>
>Fetchmail connects to my ISP's mail server, but then says,
>"Gethostbyname failed for ppp59a (or whatever number you
>want).inetone.net". Here comes a strange part: I left the default
>name assigned to my computer alone. (I think it's
>localhost@localdomain.) After tying fetchmail, the name of my
>machine changes to whatever my ISP gives me.
How is your DNS set up? Is "named" running? What is in "/etc/resolv.conf",
"/etc/nsswitch.conf", and "/etc/hosts"?
Don't try this yet, as it's always best to try to solve the real problem, but,
as a last resort, you can always eventually try fetchmail's "no dns" directive.
You mentioned having done all sorts of ugly things like kernel recompiles. This
kind of problem never requires that kind of extreme action, and can usually be
resolved via simple configuration file changes.
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