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From: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr)
Subject: Re: Help with NNTP and TheNews
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.034112.14317@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 03:41:12 GMT
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Reply-To: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr)
Organization: Central Illinois Surfing Club

cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill) writes a tale of woe and
intrigue re. TheNews.

There must be some setting which lets you define machines with IP adresses
in a certain range as "trusted" clients (TheNews will apparently fail when
the server comes back with "no posting" threat). Our sysop can't find it
either.

What worked for us was setting a static address for the Mac, defining its
name in /etc/hosts, and then telling the server to accept postings from
that name. The server still acts screwy, but at least the machines try to
communicate. This is a major kludge (esp. with Macs, which often get
addresses dynamically), but we'll stick to it until something better comes
along...

-- 
Eric Behr, Illinois State University, Mathematics Department
Internet: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu    Bitnet: ebehr@ilstu