ERROR #"502" when accessing groups

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Franco, Ruben wrote:

> news nnrpd[25211]: ? cant gethostbyaddr <USER's IP ADDRESS HERE> Unknown
> host -- using IP address for access
> news nnrpd[25211]: <USER's IP ADDRESS HERE> connect
> news nnrpd[25211]: <USER's IP ADDRESS HERE> no_permission

Well, there are two things going on.  First is that the IP is not
resolving to a hostname.  This may just mean the reverse DNS is not setup
right for that IP (try running `host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx` on some other
machine), or that something is broken in your machine's configuration.
The other thing is that your readers.conf is probably set to reject
everything except localhost.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org