Re: Emacs21: nameserver resolution fails

[Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@iris.ne.jp>]

On October 18, 2002 at 11:17PM +0200,
markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de wrote:

> If I run vm as a mail client in Emacs 20, I have no problem accessing
> my pop3 and smtp servers. If I try the same in Emacs 21, I get a
> message:
> 
> Temporary nameserver resolution problem
> 
> If I use the IP addresses of the pop3 and smtp servers instead of
> their hostnames, vm works in both Emacs 20 and Emacs 21.

I met a similar problem, like below:

  http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2002-04/msg00559.html

The server has a DNS problem; `dig server.name aaaa' returns NXDOMAIN.

The problem might be prevented by installing bind9 in your system.

-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita