On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:28:15 -0400, Hugh Lawson (hlaw...@triad.rr.com) wrote:
> Hello, > > I hope there will be some suggestions for this. This is a single-user > box, managed by an amateur (me). This is surprising and baffling; it > makes me suspect I've made some basic error in configuration, but I > can't find it. > > My newly installed squeeze has problems with DNS. Specificially, Emacs > gnus and evolution cannot reliably find their respective servers. > > If I configure the applications with 'pop-server.triad.rr.com', for > example, they report that they cannot find the server. But if I > configure them with the IP of the server,they work OK. > > OTOH iceweasel works fine. > > As far as I can tell, nslookup, ping, and host work as expected. > > A lenny install on the same hardware works fine. > > Things I've already tried: > > Configuring applications with IP rather that URL of server. Works > > Changing the name-servers in /etc/resolv.conf--makes no difference. > > Reinstalling squeeze with a later netinst cd--makes no difference. Presumably, the applications you mention as having problems are using fetchmail to retrieve mail from pop-server.triad.rr.com? What do you see if you run fetchmail directly from the command line with fetchmail -vvv ? (I have just tried this from here with a dummy username and password and connected successfully with pop-server.triad.rr.com on the POP3 port, 110). fetchmail: 6.3.9-rc2 querying pop-server.triad.rr.com (protocol POP3) at Fri 08 May 2009 14:18:40 BST: poll started Trying to connect to 71.74.56.73/110...connected. fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 server ready. fetchmail: POP3> CAPA fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows fetchmail: POP3< TOP fetchmail: POP3< USER fetchmail: POP3< RESP_CODES fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING fetchmail: POP3< EXPIRE NEVER fetchmail: POP3< UIDL fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: pop-server.triad.rr.com: opportunistic upgrade to TLS failed, trying to continue. fetchmail: POP3> USER test fetchmail: POP3< +OK please send PASS command fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< -ERR invalid user name or password. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
