Re: Need help with Leafnode/Netscape
You could try going into /etc/hosts.allow and changing the hostnames for
leafnode so that they use numeric values instead (ie change 'localhost' to
'127.0.0.1'). HTH
Cheers
Dave
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 04:03 -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
> I am unable to connect to my Leafnode server from my workstation
> running Netscape.
>
> I an running a server system with Debian hamm and some slink packages
> advised by security advisories and a workstation with hamm and some
> slink packages including Netscape 4.06. I have installed and
> configured Leafnode version 1.4 on my server system. When I try to
> connect to it from my workstation system I get the following message
> from Netscape.
>
> An error occurred with the News server.
>
> If you are unable to connect again, contact the administrator for this
> server.
>
> I find Leafnode itself running on the server by using "ps ax | grep
> leaf*" which gives 3120 1 TWN 0.02 (leafnode). Fetch is working
> since I have a file /var/lib/leafnode/groupinfo full of the group
> names and there are syslog entries. There is an appropriate entry in
> /etc/inetd.conf, nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/leafnode, and also entries in /etc/hosts.allow that was
> added by the leafnode install.
>
> Any help/suggestions are appreciated.
>
> John C. Ellingboe
> www.guntersville.net
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