@home and news servers

[Bob Cober]

John - Try setting your default DNS domain suffix to phnx3.az.home.com.
Make sure that is the right suffix and it hasn't changed.

After that you should be able to resolve mail and news automatically, using
just mail and news.

You can get your DNS domain for Cox from
http://home-members.excite.com/m_homenetworking/overview.html
and clicking on "View IP Addresses".  After logging in, go to View Current
Addresses, scroll to bottom and clik on Unix Users.  That will list
everything you need.

Hope that helps.


----- Original Message -----
From: John Albee <guesswho911@home.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 12:35 AM
Subject: RE: @home and news servers


> That could be it.  It would make sense that @home would break down their
> network by hostnames instead of IP addresses.
>
> 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 Patrick
> Hustis
> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 12:11 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RE: @home and news servers
>
>
> 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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