[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#389270: additional information

[Nagy Gabor Peter]

So I hope this helps to find the problem:

I am running etch on a laptop. When I have ethernet connection to a
working DNS server when fetchmail is started, it fetches the emails all
right.

Like I am in an office, pop3 is not allowed to the outside, but DNS
works. After login I start my vpn, and through the vpn link the next
time fetchmail awakens, it fetches all my mail.

But if I don't have a working DNS when I start my machine (like no
network at all), fetchmail tries to resolve the names, and fails. So far
it's OK.

But when I establish a connection, next time when fetchmail awakens, it
still doesn't find the servers' IP addresses in the DNS. At this time
name resolution works, as Eike wrote in the first post.

When this happens, I usually restart the daemon, and it will gladly use
the existing connection, and download everything.

Like this:
Nov 21 21:43:05 localhost fetchmail[4668]: starting fetchmail 6.3.4 daemon
Nov 21 21:43:05 localhost fetchmail[4668]: couldn't find canonical DNS name of galaxy2.simeis.net (galaxy2.simeis.net)
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: Query status=11 (DNS)
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: couldn't find canonical DNS name of freemail.hu (freemail.hu)
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: Query status=11 (DNS)
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: getaddrinfo("freemail.hu","pop3") error: Temporary failure in name resolution
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: POP3 connection to freemail.hu failed: Connection refused
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: getaddrinfo("freemail.hu","pop3") error: Temporary failure in name resolution
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: POP3 connection to freemail.hu failed: Connection refused
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: getaddrinfo("freemail.hu","pop3") error: Temporary failure in name resolution
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: couldn't find canonical DNS name of pop.gmail.com (pop.gmail.com)
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: Query status=11 (DNS)
Nov 21 21:43:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: sleeping at Tue 21 Nov 2006 09:43:06 PM CET
Nov 21 21:48:06 localhost fetchmail[4668]: awakened at Tue 21 Nov 2006 09:48:06 PM CET
Nov 21 21:49:27 localhost fetchmail[4668]: couldn't find canonical DNS name of galaxy2.simeis.net (galaxy2.simeis.net)
Nov 21 21:49:27 localhost fetchmail[4668]: Query status=11 (DNS)
Nov 21 21:50:44 localhost fetchmail[4668]: terminated with signal 15
Nov 21 21:50:45 localhost fetchmail[5189]: starting fetchmail 6.3.4 daemon
Nov 21 21:50:47 localhost fetchmail[5189]: 144 messages for xxxxxxxxxx at galaxy2.simeis.net (1695233 octets).

And from this time on it works even if there is a broken connection now
and then

So my impression is that it doesn't ask the DNS when it tries to connect
to the servers

Cheers,
Gabor