502 error on connecting

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Rajesh Kumar Pandey wrote:

> I am new to the Installation and Configuration of INN. I downloaded inn
> 2.3.0.tar.gz. I have installed it on SuSE Linux Machine.

That version is significantly out of date.  2.3.4 is the most recent 
stable release.


> Initially I had the problem that it was reporting BIND ADDRESS ALREADY IN
> USE.

(Use `netstat -ltn` to see if something is listening on 119.)


> Now my problem is that when I try to connect from any client such as Outlook
> Express to this server, it gives the error message as """502 You have no
> permission to talk.  Goodbye.""".

You need to configure your readers.conf file.  There is copious 
documentation installed as ~news/man/readers.conf.5 as well as the example 
readers.conf provided, examples very similar to your configuration are 
there.


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org