On 13 Apr 2000, 14:41, Martin J. Lang wrote:
> well, yahoo continues to hiccup. i can get my mail, but it takes three
> tries. this would piss me off if i were dialing up, but the university
> keeps me nicely plugged in; so it's really not a big deal.
If it's any consolation, we've seen this before. It will get better in
a day or so.
> in his email earlier today, alan wrote: "I configure most of my Yahoo
> accounts to the IP of the pop3 server rather than the name server. Do
> you do the same?"
>
> to which i can only respond: "hmmmmm. well. i can't rightly say. alls i
> know is that i'm gonna ip somebody's name server before this day is
> through!"
>
> i'm afraid that i have no idea what he's talking about.
>
> alan, do you mean that in your email program configuration you list the
> pop3 server as <123.45.67.890>, as opposed to <pop.mail.yahoo.com>?
Exactly.
> i wouldn't even know how to do such a thing; i apologize for my
> ignorance.
Don't apologize. We're all here to learn.
All domain names resolve to a Internet Protocol (IP) - a numeric number
for every computer connected to the Internet. Think of it as the
Internet's version of the "telephone number" for every machine. Alpha
domain names are easier to remember and work with, so we also give our
computers real names to match the IP number for the host machine.
When we configure our e-mail clients to the POP3 and SMTP servers, we
generally type in the host/domain names of the respected mail servers.
Upon downloading mail, our e-mail clients have an algorithm called a
"resolver" that connects to a "Domain Name Server" which looks up the
IP address of the domain we entered and once resolved to our client, it
sends or retrieves the message from the machine that we directed our
command.
You can alternately enter the IP address for any mail exchanger or
server. pop.mail.yahoo.com resolves to the IP of: 205.180.60.42
So I could enter that IP instead of pop.mail.yahoo.com into my email
client's POP3 field, thus saving it from having to first look up the IP
prior to retrieving mail from the yahoo remote pop3 server.
And now that you asked this...I just noticed that the IP for Yahoo pop
has changed. For those using the host name in your configurations, it
may be that the Name Servers in your area are slow to update. I know
that when I transferred ashlists.org to another host, the name servers
in this area were behind the rest of the world.
So Martin, if Yahoo is still giving you fits, try substituting the IP
of 205.180.60.42 in place of your pop.mail.yahoo.com and see if that
improves things for you. And for me, it looks like I need to reconfig
a lot of Yahoo accounts.
> p.s. love the new domain! <ashlists.org>
Thank you. :-)
Alan
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