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Re: I can't access LUGNET through nntp today
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Date: 
Fri, 16 Mar 2001 01:13:22 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Dan Boger writes:
> > 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?

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):

   From: dan@peeron.com

in the dead-articles file on the server.

--Todd



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(...) ah ha! thank you much, slrn will be reconfigured tonight :) but that doesn't explain why I couldn't cancle my own post with netscape, does it? my link posted to .trains, I tried to cancle it, but still got the "new uesrs" message... but I (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: I can't access LUGNET through nntp today
 
(...) 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 (26 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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