Bob Cox <debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com> writes:
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Hugh wrote:
>> My newly installed squeeze has problems with DNS. Specificially, Emacs
>> gnus and evolution cannot reliably find their respective servers.
Bob asks:
> What do you see if you run fetchmail directly from the command line with
> fetchmail -vvv ?
Hugh replies:
Thanks for the reply; here goes:
hlaw...@desktop:~$ fetchmail -vv
fetchmail: 6.3.9-rc2 querying pop-server.triad.rr.com (protocol POP3) at
Fri 08 May 2009 09:50:07 AM EDT: poll started
fetchmail: getaddrinfo("pop-server.triad.rr.com","pop3") error: Name or
service not known POP3 connection to pop-server.triad.rr.com failed: No
such file or directory
fetchmail: 6.3.9-rc2 querying pop-server.triad.rr.com (protocol POP3) at
Fri 08 May 2009 09:50:22 AM EDT: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
Occasionally fetchmail connects; the same is true with emacs
gnus. Moreover the 'host' command works as expected.
$ host pop-server.triad.rr.com
pop-server.triad.rr.com has address 71.74.56.73
Now if I put '71.74.56.73' in the .fetchmailrc in place of
'pop-server.triad.rr.com' I get this in return:
$ fetchmail -vv
fetchmail: 6.3.9-rc2 querying 71.74.56.73 (protocol POP3) at Fri 08 May
2009 10:01:55 AM EDT: poll started
Trying to connect to 71.74.56.73/110...connected.
fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 server ready.
fetchmail: POP3> USER hlawson
fetchmail: POP3< +OK please send PASS command
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK hlawson is welcome here
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
and so on, a normal reply. With the IP service is very fast. With the
name, there is a delay of 20 seconds or so before error
message.
Hugh
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