Not really a solution to your problem, but something I noticed when I was using @home...

I had the same problem.  I noticed, though, that if I set my desktop system's (was a win98 box back then) name to the name assigned by @home (CXxxxxxxx-x) then they would all resolve just fine, even though there was a router between us.  I have several systems behind the router/firewall, and the behavior was consistent.  Is it possible that the machine name is passed along to either the DNS or Mail/News/Web servers somehow?

Patrick

At 11:03 PM 11/24/01 -0700, you wrote:
>As a work around I would just find the local server I use which was
>news.phnx3.az.home.com, but now I recieve a message from @home news servers
>when I connect using the fully qualified host name to the effect of "please
>enter "news" for your news server settings".  The Linksys firewall is just
>the standard one port Cable/DSL router from Frys Electronics.
>
>John Albee
>guesswho911@home.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of George
>Toft
>Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 10:47 PM
>To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: @home and news servers
>
>
>Hi John,
>
>Are the ports open?  110 for POP mail, 119 for news?  Is it
>limited to @home, or do you have the same problem with any
>other provider, like Qwest or Sprint?
>
>Regards,
>
>George
>
>
>John Albee wrote:
>>
>> I have a small question that is bugging me.  Whenever I setup a system
>> (linux or win) and connect it directly to @home using their DHCP servers,
>> entries in mail and news programs such as "mail" and "news" work
>flawlessly.
>> When I connect a network using a linux or linksys firewall that grabs
>> IP/gateway/DNS information from @home's DHCP servers and passes the exact
>> same DNS server IPs, the @home "news" and "mail" aliases will not work.
>> What is causing this?
>>
>> John Albee
>> guesswho911@home.com
>>
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