Dileep Kumar M rearranged electrons thusly:
> when i configured my eth account and try to fetch mail, i got this error
> "fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of pop3.eth.net". then i put the
> entry
> 127.0.0.1 kumarayil localhost
> 202.9.167.138 pop3.eth.net pop3.eth.net (in /etc/hosts)
Dont do that - have something in /etc/resolv.conf like
search eth.net
nameserver [ip.of.eth.pdns]
nameserver [1p.of.eth.sdns]
where pdns and sdns are the primary and secondary dns servers of eth.
--suresh
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