Re: Please help with research

Hi,

> > Do you telnet to localhost but get the news client to connect to
> > your local host name?  
> 
> Err ... local host name????? (I did enter into the newsclients I tried
> out "localhost", or "127.0.0.1", Port (if requested) 119.  With
> external newsservers like "news.cis.dfn.de" (user/password), they do
> work).

what I meant was you telnet with 127.0.0.1 or `localhost' which go by
the loopback network device but you've configured your news clients to
connect to `mymachine' or whatever the hostname of your machine is and
that has an IP address of a network interface, like eth0, an Ethernet
card, so the new clients request is going by the network interface
instead of the loopback device.

Both are `your machine' but they take two different routes.

    $ ping -c 1 127.0.0.1
    PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) from 127.0.0.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=69 usec

    --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
    1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
    round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.069/0.069/0.069/0.000 ms

    $ ping -c 1 blake
    PING blake.inputplus.co.uk (192.168.2.1) from 192.168.2.1 : 56(84)
        bytes of data.
    64 bytes from blake.inputplus.co.uk (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=0
        ttl=255 time=66 usec

    --- blake.inputplus.co.uk ping statistics ---
    1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
    round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.066/0.066/0.066/0.000 ms

    $ hostname
    blake.inputplus.co.uk

Cheers,


Ralph.