I did this and I can ping both news and mail.  The reason why I even asked
this question is because suddenly could not connect to @home's news servers
and believed this was somehow related.  I can now ping news and of course
news.phnx3.az.home.com successfully but when I setup a NNTP connection in
windows or linux I recieve the error "502 Wrong server, set your server name
to: news (Twister v1.2.0)

Configuration:
   Account: news
   Server: news
   Protocol: NNTP
   Port: 119
   Secure(SSL): 0
   Error Number: 502
   Code: 800ccca0"

Any Ideas?

John Albee


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of W. E.
Brooks
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 6:11 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: @home and news servers


In the Setup for the Linksys Router, be sure that the Domain Name field
contains
your @Home Domain name and not just "@home". This is passed on to the search
line
in /etc/resolv.conf on my box (Mandrake8.1 with kernel updated to 2.5.0).

This allows ping mail and ping news.

W. E. Brooks

>Take a look at this file /etc/resolv.conf. It should have several lines
>that start with nameserver and one line that starts with search.
>
>On my box, the search line is as follows:
>   search @home
>
>This should be my @home search domain which is:
>   chnd1.az.home.com
>If I change the search line to:
>   search chnd1.az.home.com
>then I can ping mail and news.
>
>However, /etc/resolv.conf gets rebuilt on each reboot.
>When I boot the search line gets changed back to
>   search @home
>Don't know if this is a bug or a feature.
>
>
>W.E. Brooks

On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 21:50, 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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