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<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/09/03 21:15:37 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/09/03 22:32:50 $
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<HR>
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -846,9 +846,13 @@ such problems by doing an <CODE>smtp</CODE> declaration with an IP
address that your routing table maps to something other than the
loopback device (he used ppp0).<p>
+We also have a report that this error can be caused by having an
+/etc/hosts fiule that associates your client host name with more than
+one IP address.
+
We had another report from a Linux user of fetchmail 2.1 who solved his SMTP
connection problem by removing the reference to -lresolv from his link
-line and relinking. Apparently in some recent Linux distributions the
+line and relinking. Apparently in some older Linux distributions the
libc bind library version works better.<p>
As of 2.2, the configure script has been hacked so the bind library is
@@ -1241,7 +1245,7 @@ force an rc file reread, do <code>fetchmail -q; fetchmail</code>.<P>
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/09/03 21:15:37 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1997/09/03 22:32:50 $
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<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>