does feed must use domain name?

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Richard Huang wrote:

> hi,professor
>     I try to feed news from one server(192.168.1.106) to another server(192.168.1.109),
> every configure file I only use IP address,like incoming feed.conf --- 
> -----
> peer 192.168.1.106{
>     host name: "192.168.1.106"
> }
> -----
> but it can't feed.

You should check the logs -- if that is your actual config file, it has an 
extra space (should be "hostname" without space).


> I want to know:does feed must use domain name like "aba.unet.com"?

Domain names are not required.

I'm not sure if IP addresses work everywhere.  But you can simply use 
descriptive text names in places where it looks like you need a domain 
name.

Like in incoming.conf:

  peer otherlocalcomputer {
    hostname: 192.168.1.106    
  }


Similarly in newsfeeds and innfeed.conf.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org