Funnel_bad... can't find newsfeed server?

[Shena Delian O'Brien]

Hi -

I'm moving a private (only about 8 groups) news server from one machine 
to the other. The new machine had INN already installed, so I just 
configured it to accept the newsfeed from the old machine, and send one 
in return so that while we're moving, the servers sync.

The new server accepts the newsfeed just fine, only I can't figure out 
how to get it to get all the old archives messages. So that's question #1.

The new server will not send a newsfeed to the old server. The error 
message in news.crit is that the new server is a funnel_bad. There is 
however an error for the new server both in newsfeeds and in 
nntpsend.ctl so I'm no sure what the problem is. I looked in 
nntpsend.log however and it said it couldn't not find the new server! 
Apparently it's looking for the URL and can't find it.

That's strange, because when I type nslookup or ping on the old server 
URL from the box it works just fine. I don't know why INN can't find the 
old server.. furthermore when it can't find the old server it crashes 
and the new server suddenly is connection refused (cuz it crashed).

How can I troubleshoot this? Any help is appreciated.

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