Re: Posting to usenet
Hi,
> > # user's mail address, if not username@host
> > mail_address=
>
> Okay, that works. (OTOH, I'm not enamoured with tin, so it would be nice
> if I could figure out how to get trn to work.)
>
You should set a line like this in trn as well (after we get your system
working). Your username@your.local.hostname is not a valid emailaddress if
someone chooses to reply via mail. It is not nice to get bounces because
of screwed up addresses.
> > What do "hostname" and "dnsdomainname" say?
>
> Hostname spits out "drollsden", which for silly and irrelevant reasons is
> the name I chose for my machine. dnsdomainname produces no output at all.
Sounds swedish :-)
> > /etc/hosts ?
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
> 0.0.0.0 drollsden
>
> That 0.0.0.0 is admittedly suspicious, but according to the ISP-Hookup
> HOWTO that's the correct syntax when using dynamic IP assignment.
>
make /etc/hosts look like:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 drollsden.home.net drollsden
Drop the 0.0.0.0 line. I never used that one.
> > route ? (I get out of ideas right now :-)
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> loopnet * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 4 lo
>
> Which means nothing to me.:)
man route :-)
> Amendment to previous message: /sbin/route produces different output when
> I'm connected. It's
This is quite right, it should be different.
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> ca24l.pq.ca.ibm * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
> loopnet * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 4 lo
> default ca24l.pq.ca.ibm 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 3 ppp0
>
Looks OK to me.
So fix your /etc/hosts
Try hostname and dnsdomainname again and then trn.
Maybe this works for you.
Ciao,
Martin
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