[leafnode-list] Re: Leafnode cannot find the host

Cecil Westerhof cldwesterhof at gmail.com
Tue Jul 9 11:23:31 CEST 2013


I did everything you said, but ltrace revealed the bug. So I do not
think the other information is interesting any-more.

You can use:
    server = news.kpn.nl

But when you use:
    server = news.kpn.nl # some comment

you got the error I mentioned. So I think leafnode should be amended
to handle comments correctly.

2013/7/4 Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de>:
> Am 29.06.2013 17:56, schrieb Cecil Westerhof:
>> I just changed to fiber. Because of this I had to change the news server.
>>
>> When fetching news I get the following:
>>     news.kpn.nl : connecting to port nntp...
>>     warning: news.kpn.nl : cannot resolve host name: Name or service not known
>>     news.kpn.nl : connection failed.
>>     213.75.12.10 : connecting to port nntp...
>>     213.75.12.10 : connected to 213.75.12.10:119, reply: 200
>>     213.75.12.10 : connected.
>>
>> news.kpn.nl has (at the moment) the ip-adres 213.75.12.10, but this
>> could change. What could be the problem?
>
> Hi Cecil,
>
> there is not enough information to debug this from my end, and things
> work for me, except that news.kpn.nl responds with code 201 and then 480
> (authentication required) - but my fetchnews does resolve news.kpn.nl.
>
> If your operating system is outdated, that might be a problem.  I can
> only support leafnode on operating systems that are still in the regular
> support period.
>
> Are you, by chance, on a network that is IPv6-only, meaning: does your
> computer still have a routable IPv4 address?  fetchnews does set
> AI_ADDRCONFIG in the getaddrinfo() call, and that will only look up IPv4
> addresses if your local computer running fetchnews has one (and
> news.kpn.nl does not have IPv6 addresses).
>
>
> Beyond that, I need, among other information:
>
> - the output of leafnode-version -v
>
> - how you installed leafnode
>
> - possibly your /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/host.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf (if
> present)
>
> - possibly an ltrace or sotruss output (you may need to install that,
> and I suspect there may not be equivalents on the *BSDs) near the place
> where you find news.kpn.nl.
>
> - the output of "ifconfig". Feel free to remove hardware addresses (MAC
> addresses, those 01:23:45:67:89:AB addresses), and feel free to change
> some crucial parts of the externally visible addresses to XX (but not
> their first two bytes, or the first three byte groups in IPv6).
>
>> By the way
>>     telnet news.kpn.nl nntp
>> does work.
>
> What does telnet do differently than fetchnews?
>
> Best regards
> Matthias Andree
>
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