Problem with inews

[Russ Allbery]

Michael Stassen <stassenm at indiana.edu> writes:

> NNTPSERVER is unset, as was the case before.  My nnrp.access has

>   # Default is no access, no way to authentication, and no groups.
>   *::::!*
>   #
>   # Let anyone at IUB read kbreview
>   *.indiana.edu:Read Post:::kbreview
>   #
>   # Let anyone on a local machine read/post all groups
>   stdin:Read Post:::*
>   localhost:Read Post:::*
>   127.0.0.1:Read Post:::*
>   jalapeno.ucs.indiana.edu:Read Post:::*
  
> Jalapeno is the machine running INN.  There are a half dozen more lines
> like the last for our other internal use machines, and a matching line
> for each with the IP number in place of the FQDN.

Weird... what's server set to in inn.conf?  That's what inews should be
connecting to; I don't immediately see any reason for this problem.

If you set NNTPSERVER to 127.0.0.1, does it work any better?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>