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From: leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: "Path"
Message-ID: <7714@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 22 Oct 90 23:35:20 GMT
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Don Lewis writes:
> If you are posting from the other hosts using the mini-inews supplied
> with nntp and gethostbyname() does not return a fully qualified domain
> name for the current host (as on Suns using YP/NIS), [...]

If this is your problem then the hosts file you're loading into the yp
map is wrong. The h_name field of the hostnet struct is supposed to be
the official (read canonical) name of the host. This means that you
really want the fully qualified domain name first:

	128.3.112.36    dog.ee.lbl.gov dog

it breaks more than the mini-inews if the "alias" appears first.

		Craig