On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 01:52 -0400, William Case wrote: > Every time I send or receive mail I get a warning message at the > bottom of my Evolution window telling me "Error while fetching mail". > and "Host lookup failed:pop.broadband.rogers.com:Name or service not > known". In fact, there never seems to really be an error or problem > fetching mail; it is all there. The warning goes away after a minute > of two. > > I have checked my standard logs and can't seem to see anything > untoward. Play around with the dig tool, request the address for that server, see how fast you get a response. You might have a crappy DNS server, like my ISPs always seem to have (so I run my own DNS servers). [tim@gonzales ~]$ dig pop.broadband.rogers.com ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0-P1 <<>> pop.broadband.rogers.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5974 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 9, ADDITIONAL: 4 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;pop.broadband.rogers.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: pop.broadband.rogers.com. 3600 IN CNAME pop.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com. pop.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com. 86400 IN CNAME pop-rog.mail.yahoo.com. pop-rog.mail.yahoo.com. 300 IN CNAME pop-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net. pop-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net. 300 IN A 206.190.36.17 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: akadns.net. 77259 IN NS zc.akadns.org. akadns.net. 77259 IN NS zd.akadns.org. akadns.net. 77259 IN NS eur1.akadns.net. akadns.net. 77259 IN NS use3.akadns.net. akadns.net. 77259 IN NS use4.akadns.net. akadns.net. 77259 IN NS usw2.akadns.net. akadns.net. 77259 IN NS asia9.akadns.net. akadns.net. 77259 IN NS za.akadns.org. akadns.net. 77259 IN NS zb.akadns.org. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: za.akadns.org. 2901 IN A 195.219.3.169 zb.akadns.org. 2801 IN A 12.183.125.5 zc.akadns.org. 2701 IN A 124.211.40.4 zd.akadns.org. 2501 IN A 65.114.105.4 ;; Query time: 1760 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.2#53(192.168.1.2) ;; WHEN: Sat Jul 12 11:51:41 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 410 That took 1.8 seconds to complete, for me. A bit lengthy, but shouldn't be too long for a mail client to complain about. > Could this be another NetworkManager problem ?? Dunno about that. But programs starting up off-line because they think you're off-line, when you're really on-line, has been a common complaint about it. Though you'd get a different sort of problem with Evolution than you've detailed. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
