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Old 12-13-2017, 04:58 PM   #1
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Angry Telnet - No address associated with hostname


I have fedora 22, networks works fine I can browse internet, I can ping....
Recently, I setup evolution email client, whenever I do "send/Receive" I get an error saying
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Error while Fetching....Error resolving "mypop.domain.fr. No address associated with hostname.
Reading some articles on this side for similar issues, one recommended to do a telnet, here I discovered that doing
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telnet mypop.domain.fr 110
sends back the same error

I run the exact same telnet commend from a windows machine n the ame subnet, same DNS, same gateway, it works fine telnet and pop, smtp protocol.
I checked fedora firewall, PO3s is checked in the public zone.
Am I missing something?
N.B : while I was checking firewall, I noticed that it is POP3s not POP3, is it the same thing or should it be POP3 and there is something wrong in my setup?
Thanks for your help
 
Old 12-13-2017, 05:04 PM   #2
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Telnet - No address associated with hostname

maybe try dig or nslookup
are you sure that's a valid name address?
 
Old 12-13-2017, 05:10 PM   #3
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In fact, I have just discovered that whatever server I ping, I get the exact same error message
 
Old 12-13-2017, 05:11 PM   #4
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Yes more than sure, as I said, I do telent from a windows machgine with exactlt same nertwork config and everything works fine
 
Old 12-13-2017, 07:39 PM   #5
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Try a traceroute (tracert on Windows) and pipe the output to files, then compare the two files. That might give you some clues as to where the connection is failing.

You may have to use the "m" argument with traceroute. See man traceroute for more.

Last edited by frankbell; 12-13-2017 at 07:40 PM. Reason: grammar
 
Old 12-16-2017, 04:22 AM   #6
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I think this is related to DNS issue.
 
Old 12-16-2017, 06:04 AM   #7
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Thanks, yes it was DNS issue
 
Old 12-16-2017, 07:41 AM   #8
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It basically had to be "a DNS issue." To resolve any address, the system looks at /etc/hosts and then it starts issuing requests to a list of DNS servers. That's how "linuxquestions.org" gets resolved to an IP-address of one of its servers.
 
Old 12-16-2017, 07:06 PM   #9
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a bit of a WARNING
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Warning:
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I have fedora 22, ...
Fedora 22
Fedora 23
Fedora 24
Fedora 25
are ALL UNSUPPORTED
and Fedora 26 has 6 months left until it is End Of Life


if you are going to use fedora then STAY current !!!
install Fedora 27

you are 5 versions out of date and missing a few YEARS of security fixes
 
Old 12-16-2017, 10:48 PM   #10
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Solution???

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Originally Posted by eliassal View Post
Thanks, yes it was DNS issue
What was the solution? I and others, esp. future searchers/readers very much want to know.
Then, you can mark Thread as 'Solv'd'. Thank you eliassal.
 
  


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