At 12:11 PM 2/23/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I have been having some difficulties connecting to my dnews setup. It
>used to work just fine, but now when I attempt to connect remotely to
>get my news, it won't connect. And all I get in the dnews.log file
>during that time is:
>
>
>23 12:06:22 :info: uucp_flush2 called
>23 12:06:26 :info: db_piles_trim called
>23 12:06:35 :info: Timezone Offset 28800 dst 0
>23 12:07:27 :info: db_piles_trim called
>23 12:07:35 :info: Timezone Offset 28800 dst 0
>
>Which really doesn't tell me why dnews is rejecting my connection
>attempt. No passwords, or users have changed, and I have verified that
>I am getting to my box with a NNTP packet. But dnews is just not
>responding. Any ideas??
That log shows dnews is not getting a connection at all.
If you are running dmulti then examine dmulti.log not dnews.log to see the
connection.
Does it work when you use the ip address remotely
telnet your.machine.ip.number 119
Does it work when you try it locally using telnet
telnet your.machine.name 119
Also check the loopback address
telnet 127.0.0.1 119
My feeling is you have a network problem and you aren't really getting to
the dnews
box at all. How did you check packets were getting to the right system?
ChrisP.
