Re: news on migrated system?

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From: Tom Digby
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 23:22

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Joe Smith <inwap@best.com> wrote:

> 1) Log into your new shell account, using telnet or ssh.
>    It makes absolutely no difference where the incoming session originates.
> 2) Set the environment variable NNTPSERVER to one of these values:
> 	setenv NNTPSERVER 129.250.35.204
> 	setenv NNTPSERVER sea-read-dyn.news.verio.net
> 	setenv NNTPSERVER news.ncal.verio.com
> 	setenv NNTPSERVER ca.news.verio.net
> 3) Run "tin -r" to read news.  The NNTP client runs on the new shell server.


Just tried all four of those.  No dice.  Still get the authentication 
failure.  Example: 

> setenv NNTPSERVER ca.news.verio.net
> tin -r
Reading config file...
tin 1.4.5 release 20010409 ("One More Nightmare") [UNIX] (c) Copyright 
1991-99 .
Authorization required for your host/ip (Typhoon v1.2.2)
Server expects authentication.
 ... and so on.


-- 
          Tom Digby
          bubbles@well.com 
          http://www.well.com/~bubbles/

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From: Tom Digby <bubbles@shell18.ba.best.com>
Newsgroups: best.general
Subject: Re: news on migrated system?
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 23:22:18 +0000 (UTC)
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