kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (02/27/91)
Are you running MacTCP? Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.
cheshire@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Stuart David Cheshire) (02/27/91)
Many thanks to Steve Cavrak, MCE, Sigurd Meldal, Gary White, Allan Burton, Kurtis MacFerrin, John DeRosa, Eric Behr, Jay Lopez, Marc, and Bill Cramer (the author) for helping me sort out the problem with TheNews. The problem was that when I ran "xrn" I was not running it on the Mac, but on another machine (running UNIX) with the Mac as its X display. The NNTP server recognised that machine's IP address and allowed connection. When I tried to connect directly from the Mac, using TheNews, the server did not recognise the Mac's IP address and simply ignored it. It is a pity it does not return some kind of more useful error code which says "I am here, I can hear you, I under- stand what you want to do, but I'm afraid your address isn't in my permission file." Then I would have known better where the error lay. I have now found a different server to access which is already set up to serve all machines at Stanford, not just those in the CS building as the previous one was. Stuart Cheshire (cheshire@cs.stanford.edu)