On Tuesday 11 November 2003 6:21 am, you wrote:
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 19:39, E.F.Maurer wrote:
Is there anything in linux that would need to make a connection to the namesarver every few hours that could be causing this?
Have you changed the config for "nscd?" If not, then don't worry about it.
Since I have no idea what nscd is I think we can rule that out. Is it network security daemon?
Since it's time-based, you could do a ``tcpdump'' of traffic around the time this is happening, and see what's going on.
It appears to be time based. Nevermind it's happening as I type. I pinged the gateway between email #2 and 3. maurerfranklin@VMXLinux:~> fetchmail fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of mail.comcast.net (mail.comcast.net) fetchmail: Query status=11 (DNS) POP3 connection to mail.comcast.net failed: temporary name server error. fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) fetchmail: No mail for franklinmaurer at mail.comcast.net maurerfranklin@VMXLinux:~> -- E.F.Maurer Using SuSE 9.0 Pro