Yes it is correct...I just substituted news.mydomain.com while posting to
the list for security reasons...The forward arnd reverse DNS are also
correct for the hostname.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Support PN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bill Sandiford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Tellnews error
Bill Sandiford wrote:
>
> Hello :
>
> Please excuse the newbie nature of this question.
> Everytime I try to run tellnews I get the following error
>
> File error:: Connection refused
> nntp_perror: news.mydomain.com
>
> can anyone help....I can't even run tellnews -help without getting the
error
Yes, your dnews.conf myname setting is not valid. The name there should
resolve to a valid ip number.
You could try using your ip number instead if a name doesn't work.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Regards,
Brian
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