On Sun, 07 Mar 1999, Thomas Booms EDV wrote: >Gerben Wierda wrote: > >> I am sorry if this is not the right place to ask this, but I have been >> running newsx on my OPENSTEP 4.2 system for a while now and suddenly I am >> getting errors connecting. This must be because the other side has changed >> something, but I have bad experiences with the level of knowledge on the >> other side, so before I will contact them I'd like to know what is going >> on here: >> >> connecting to nntp server at koza.nl.net >> <- 502 Holy DNS batman, you aren't on my list! (Diablo) >> newsx: can't talk to "koza.nl.net": got response code 502 > >Hi Gerben, > >is or was your isp with public access? If so, it seems that they set up an >access database. Only who's in their database can contact them now. Contact >and ask them about this. > >Thomas Actually, what happened was the following: 1. NLnet has a domain news.nl.net, but the system running it was koza.nl.net2. I tried configuring Newsx using news.nl.net, but that name does not occur in the path: header from NLnet. What did was koza.nl.net, zo I configured Newsx that way.
3. They moved their public server to another host: zonnetje.nl.net
4. koza.nl.net now runs a news server with an acces list
5. As it turns out, the name they put into their Path: header is 'sun4nl' for historical reasons. Hence it was koza.nl.net!sun4nl!etc and now it is zonnetje.nl.net!sun4nl!etc
6. Hence instead of running "newsx koza.nl.net" I could either change it to "newsx zonnetje.nl.net" or (better) "newsx sun4nl news.nl.net". That latter config is robust in that it wil not break when they move there news server again, so long as they keep sun4nl in the Path header and news.nl.net as an alias for the news system.
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