From a402b06dfa66057d8955c4533ee6209d4f5493e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:45:44 +0000
Subject: Better error messages.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=568
---
 fetchmail.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fetchmail.c b/fetchmail.c
index 49355f5c..3dea6252 100644
--- a/fetchmail.c
+++ b/fetchmail.c
@@ -329,12 +329,17 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 		    namerec = gethostbyname(ctl->servername);
 		    if (namerec == (struct hostent *)NULL)
 		    {
+			fprintf(stderr,
+				"fetchmail: skipping %s poll, ",
+				ctl->servername);
 			if (errno)
-			    perror("fetchmail: initialization error");
+			{
+			    perror("general error");
+			    if (errno == ENETUNREACH)
+				break;	/* go to sleep */
+			}
 			else
-			    fprintf(stderr,
-				"fetchmail: skipping %s poll, nameserver isn't responding\n",
-				ctl->servername);
+			    herror("DNS error");
 			continue;
 		    }
 		    else
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