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Bug 3394 - problems with fetchmail
Summary: problems with fetchmail
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Grant Goodyear (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-06-04 19:00 UTC by José Alberto Suárez López
Modified: 2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description José Alberto Suárez López 2002-06-04 19:00:49 UTC 
bass@wopr bass $ fetchmailconf 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 2009, in ?
    hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0]
socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
Comment 1 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-06-05 15:00:32 UTC 
'Name or service not known' looks like an nss problem.  I'm betting your hostname
isn't in /etc/hosts.

Just emerged the latest version, 5.9.11, and it works for me.