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Re: I can't access LUGNET through nntp today
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:59:41 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:

> 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.

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 could post regulary without a problem...

ideas?

Dan



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(...) 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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