Fetchmail problem with demand dailing

[Roland Hill <rnrhill ak planet gen nz>]

Hello List,

I have started getting the following error in the fetchmail log:

fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)

The consequence is that mail is not retrieved for my home network.

My modem is configured to demand dial (via wvdial) and I usually start
fetchmail with fetchmail -d 7200.

I have read the man pages and it appears that fetchmail "times out"
while waiting for my ISP to be connected and the DNS resolved. It
assumes that the POP server does not exist.

If the connection is already up, then fetchmail works as intended.

My suspicion is that resolving my ISP's DNS is taking a little longer
due to my primary DNS pointing to my DNS cache and my secondary DNS
pointing to my ISP. This slight delay appears to hang fetchmail. I have
had fetchmail working perfectly and the implementation of DNS cache is
the only thing I can think of that I have configured recently that may
cause a problem.

As a new user I would appreciate any ideas on how I could solve this
problem. Can fetchmail be "told" to wait longer before hanging?

Regards,

Roland Hill