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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Suresh Ramasubramanian  <-->  mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin

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