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Re: I can't access LUGNET through nntp today
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:00:35 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:

> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Dan Boger <dan@peeron.com> writes:
> 
> > defenitly doesn't backwards resolve, but that shouldn't be an issue,
> > should it?
> 
> 
> That could be it.  IIRC, the HTTP server doesn't do reverse lookups but the
> NNTP server does.

hmmm... would that cause the 440 error (new users start here)?  I've
been getting that with slrn when I tried to post from home... and my
!@#$!@ verison dhcp may or may not backwards resolve...

Might that be the reason?

Dan



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  Re: I can't access LUGNET through nntp today
 
(...) Hmm, no, the "new users start here" message only happens once the article is received and going through the auth stages. I think your newsreader must be submitting a faulty 'From:' header...I see a line like this (which is missing your name): (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: I can't access LUGNET through nntp today
 
(...) That could be it. IIRC, the HTTP server doesn't do reverse lookups but the NNTP server does. --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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