Hi Can anyone tell me how to access the innd news server. Thru putty i can telnet to localhost 119. However if i want to telnet to the same server on e.g. telnet peter 119 i get 502 you have no permission to talk The same occurs when i want to connect thru outlook and or thunderbird (the windows version) Both machines are about 50 cm apart and i can send or receive mail from the same linux server some snippets from my config ## $Id: inn.conf.in,v 1.57 2003/02/03 00:58:26 rra Exp $ ## ## inn.conf -- INN configuration data ## ## Format: ## <parameter>:<whitespace><value> ## ## Blank values are allowed for certain parameters. ## ## See the inn.conf(5) man page for a full description of each of these ## options. This sample file is divided into two sections; first, there ## are the parameters that must be set (or should be set in nearly all ## cases), and then all parameters are given with their defaults for ## reference in the same order and with the same organization as the ## inn.conf(5) documentation. # The following parameters are most likely to need setting, although the # defaults generated by configure may be reasonable. mta: "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -oem %s" organization: "A poorly-installed InterNetNews site" ovmethod: tradindexed hismethod: hisv6 #pathhost: localhost pathnews: /usr/lib/news # General Settings domain: peter.prive #innflags: mailcmd: /usr/lib/news/bin/innmail server: peter # Feed Configuration artcutoff: 10 bindaddress: all #bindaddress6: dontrejectfiltered: false hiscachesize: 512 ignorenewsgroups: false immediatecancel: false linecountfuzz: 0 maxartsize: 5000000 maxconnections: 50 #pathalias: pgpverify: true port: 119 refusecybercancels: false remembertrash: true sourceaddress: any #sourceaddress6: verifycancels: false wanttrash: false wipcheck: 5 wipexpire: 10 # Article Storage cnfscheckfudgesize: 0 enableoverview: true groupbaseexpiry: true mergetogroups: false overcachesize: 15 #ovgrouppat: storeonxref: true nfswriter: false # Reading allownewnews: true articlemmap: false clienttimeout: 3600 initialtimeout: 10 msgidcachesize: 10000 nnrpdcheckart: true noreader: false readerswhenstopped: false readertrack: false nfsreader: false nfsreaderdelay: 60 tradindexedmmap: true nnrpdloadlimit: 16 # Reading -- Keyword Support # # Enabling this without stopping innd and deleting the existing overview # database and adding will probably confuse a lot of things. You must # have compiled this support in too. keywords: false keyartlimit: 100000 keylimit: 512 keymaxwords: 250 # Posting addnntppostingdate: true addnntppostinghost: true checkincludedtext: false #complaints: fromhost: peter.prive localmaxartsize: 5000000 #moderatormailer: nnrpdauthsender: false #nnrpdposthost: nnrpdpostport: 119 spoolfirst: false strippostcc: false # Posting -- Exponential Backoff backoffauth: false #backoffdb: backoffk: 1 backoffpostfast: 0 backoffpostslow: 1 backofftrigger: 10000 # Monitoring doinnwatch: false innwatchbatchspace: 800 innwatchlibspace: 25000 innwatchloload: 1000 innwatchhiload: 2000 innwatchpauseload: 1500 innwatchsleeptime: 600 innwatchspoolnodes: 200 innwatchspoolspace: 8000 # Logging docnfsstat: false logartsize: true logcancelcomm: true logcycles: 7 logipaddr: true logsitename: true nnrpdoverstats: false nntpactsync: 200 nntplinklog: false status: 300 timer: 300 # System Tuning badiocount: 5 blockbackoff: 120 chaninacttime: 600 chanretrytime: 300 datamovethreshold: 8192 icdsynccount: 10 keepmmappedthreshold: 1024 #maxcmdreadsize: maxforks: 10 nicekids: 4 nicenewnews: 0 nicennrpd: 0 pauseretrytime: 300 peertimeout: 1200 rlimitnofile: -1 # Paths patharchive: /var/spool/news/archive pathbin: /usr/lib/news/bin pathcontrol: /usr/lib/news/bin/control pathdb: /var/lib/news pathetc: /etc/news pathfilter: /usr/lib/news/bin/filter pathhttp: /var/log/news/http pathincoming: /var/spool/news/incoming pathlog: /var/log/news pathoutgoing: /var/spool/news/outgoing pathoverview: /var/spool/news/overview pathrun: /var/run/news pathspool: /var/spool/news pathtmp: /var/spool/news/tmp