dms@ai.mit.edu (David M. Siegel) (08/25/90)
I'm a little confused on how to configure news. There are (at least) 3 defines that I don't understand: HIDDENNET, GENERICPATH, and GENERICFROM. First, a little background information: our machine is named life.ai.mit.edu. All outgoing mail should have the form user@ai.mit.edu. Currently, ai.mit.edu is MXed to life. We have a few local uucp connections being made to the machine to forward mail, and some news. The uucp name we use is ai-lab. The uucp name shouldn't be advertised to the world. It is simply used between life and its local uucp connections. Some of the local uucp connections get news feeds from life. So, the big question is, what is the proper news configuration? I think these are the only three defines that are involved, but maybe there are some others. The current setup we use is not correct, for ai-lab seems to come out in pathnames from our news. One last question: how should these defines be set for the news servers using uucp connections to life? /* #define HIDDENNET "frooz" /* if you have a local network and want */ /* The mail address to look like it came */ /* from one machine */ /* NOTE: The following two macros replace the use of HIDDENNET */ #define GENERICPATH "ai-lab" /* If you are using a shared USENET/UUCP node */ #define GENERICFROM "ai.mit.edu" /* If you want generic From:-addresses */ Thanks, -Dave