From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SXmtu-0001Wd-1U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 05:17:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 453E7E0761; Fri, 25 May 2012 05:17:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68FFAE065A for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 05:15:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F1E1B403A for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 05:15:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.524 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.524 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.914, BAYES_05=-0.5, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cxfs1N6JlGH3 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 05:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0009C1B4025 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 05:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SXms3-0007vA-KJ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 07:15:27 +0200 Received: from athedsl-348786.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.218.16]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 07:15:27 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-348786.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 07:15:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to access newsgroup? Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 08:14:45 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20120525033044.GA3661@Gentoo> <20120525043327.GB3661@Gentoo> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-348786.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120525 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: e7ab5cff-3889-4244-a784-ff96edccf674 X-Archives-Hash: f72ac18b3bb708de4efc31d2e019d9d3 On 25/05/12 07:46, Adam Carter wrote: >> Using newsrc file /home/wenpincui/.jnewsrc for server news.newsgroups.com.hk. >> Connecting to host news.newsgroups.com.hk ... >> Failed to resolve news.newsgroups.com.hk > > So the host is not called news.newsgroups.com.hk. > > $ host news.newsgroups.com.hk > Host news.newsgroups.com.hk not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > $ host -t NS newsgroups.com.hk > newsgroups.com.hk name server ns11.dnsmadeeasy.com. > newsgroups.com.hk name server ns10.dnsmadeeasy.com. > newsgroups.com.hk name server ns13.dnsmadeeasy.com. > newsgroups.com.hk name server ns14.dnsmadeeasy.com. > newsgroups.com.hk name server ns15.dnsmadeeasy.com. > newsgroups.com.hk name server ns12.dnsmadeeasy.com. > > So newsgroups.com.hk is a real domain, but the hostname in that domain > is not "news". You'll need to double check what the hostname is. Hmm, his original hostname works though: $ host news.newsgroup.com.hk news.newsgroup.com.hk has address 59.188.5.218