problem using innxmit for outgoig posts

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed Oct 2 16:42:00 UTC 2002


John Covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> writes:

> Hi.  I am having a very strange problem trying to use innxmit for
> posting outgoing news messages.  What I get is the following message in
> the log and from innxmit.

> Oct 2 11:10:27 ccs innxmit[27529]: binarykiller.newsfeeds.com connect
> failed Cannot assign requested address

     EADDRNOTAVAIL
           The specified address is not available on the remote machine.

> Now if I post the article by hand, it works correctly -- am I doing
> something wrong, I cannot even find the text of the message anywhere.  I
> am using 20021002 STABLE release of inn.

innxmit doesn't POST; it uses IHAVE.  Are you sure you have the ability to
feed that host directly?

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