@home and news servers

Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:46:22 -0700

John,

Sorry for not responding earlier, It slipped through the 1000s of emails I
get 
from PLUG...

Heres the deal. I have a private network (192.168.1.xx) network behind a
linksys
cable modem router. I was getting the same errors you were seeing when
trying to
connect to the news servers. The mail server is fine but the news servers
were giving
me the same error messages. So I went on the Internet and looked for a
public nntp
server to see if I got the same error message or not. I didn't get the same
message
and was able to connect up with out any issues. So it may have something to
do with
the Linksys router and something specific to the @home network. I haven't
had time
to troubleshoot further but I was going to put my old linux firewall back up
and
see if I still cannot connect. I also run my own internal DNS server to
further 
complicate matters. Maybe I will have some time tonight to look at it..

-----Original Message-----
From: John Albee [mailto:guesswho911@home.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:11 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: RE: @home and news servers

Mark,
Can you connect to their NNTP servers with a computer connected directly to
their network?  Im not sure this problem is any fault of ours anymore.  May
be a @home misconfiguration, which I hope it is not.  Trying to explain this
to a level one tech and then getting passed to a level two tech who won't
believe you for the first 20 min. does not sound like a call I would want to
make today.

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
Gildersleeve, Mark
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:06 AM
To: 'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'
Subject: RE: @home and news servers

I saw this same problem this weekend. At first I thought
it was a new firewall that I put up, but discounted that
after I was able to connect to public NNTP servers successfully.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Albee [mailto:guesswho911@home.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 2:57 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: RE: @home and news servers

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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