Re: "Posting not allowed" / "Posten nicht erlaubt"

Urs Janßen schrieb am 15.04.2012 um 19:54 (+0200):
> In <20120415163608.GV1296@Dago>, Michael Ludwig wrote:

> > Tin warns it cannot find a (fully qualified) domain name.
> > Despite the domainname setting I put in /etc/tin/tin.defaults .
> 
> [README]
> | Note that tin requires a valid fully qualified domain name for the host
> | you are running tin on. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A HOST NAME WITH A VALID DOMAIN
> | GO AND GET ONE AND CONFIGURE YOUR HOST -- NOW!

> -> give your cmputer a (vaild) FQDN.

Well, despite the ALLCAPS outfit the precise requirement lacks clarity.
Obviously, the intention cannot be to have the user buy a host on the
Internet ("GET ONE"), can it? So it would rather mean that the hostname
should have at least one dot, right? And possibly one of the well-known
top-level domains, but this is just guesswork. Can you clarify?

Also, what is the purpose of this hostname, why does tin insist? No
program has ever been unhappy with this simple hostname, not even Oracle
or MSSQL. What does tin need it for?

Does tin need it for more than generating Message IDs? Because if not,
any string conforming to the spec of an fully qualified hostname should
do. Isn't there a way to mock it, like I tried:

> > Despite the domainname setting I put in /etc/tin/tin.defaults .

I verified the file is being read using strace. Is that domainname
setting deprecated, irrelevant, ignored?

I would simply have given the FQDN to this computer if this were Linux.
But it is Cygwin/Win7 in a home network and not part of any domain, for
which I think I'd need Active Directory, which looks like overkill to
get a newsreader working.

Or should I get the source, edit the FQDN check out and recompile?
-- 
Michael Ludwig