🚀 go-pugleaf

I've sorta kinda gotten NOS and FIST working here (FIST seems fine
AFAICT, at least for sending outbound email), but os far I haven't
been able to get any news sent either direction.  Also, after NOS
connects to my ISP, I have to manually ping the server before the news
session will start (I've tried waiting up to 10 minutes and nothing
will happen, but if I ping, it starts within a few seconds).

Here are my NOS files;  I hope someone will be able to spot what I'm
doing wrong.

DIAL.TXT (with my login and password suitably disguised):

#
#       dialer script for login to 3rdplanet
#
#  replace 'site' and 'password' with your values
#
configure:
init "+++ATZ\r"
dial_cmd "ATM1L3E1DT"
ld_code         ""
number "274-6525\r"
retries         9
#
execute:
init
cwait  5000 "OK" "ERROR"
wait  10000
dial
cwait 25000 "CONNECT" "BUSY" "NO CARRIER" "NO DIALTONE"
cwait 6000  "ogin:"
wait 300
send "my_login\r"
wait 2000 "assword:" 
wait 300
send "my_password\r"
wait 6000 ") to" 
wait 5000 

and STARTUP.NOS:

# startup file for KA9Q-NOS ST (DIS Version) 

hostname starship.3rdplanet.com

ip addr [0.0.0.0]

# Attach the SLIP driver to the serial port 
#      if  port 0 slip dev buff mru  baud
#      --- ---- - ---- --- ---- ---  ----
attach asy AUX: 0 ppp sl0 32767 1500 19200 

# how many hops before a packet is discarded (Time To Live)
ip ttl 64

# tcp parameters can be tuned. 
tcp mss 1460
tcp window 11680
tcp irtt 3000
tcp syndata on

# ppp parameters
ppp sl0 lcp local mru 1500
ppp sl0 lcp remote mru 1500
ppp sl0 lcp local accm 0x000a0000
ppp sl0 lcp local pfc on
ppp sl0 lcp local acfc on
ppp sl0 ipcp local compress tcp 16 1 
ppp sl0 lcp open active
ppp sl0 ipcp open active
ppp sl0 idle 300 exit

# Setup Simple Mail Transfer Protocol parameters
smtp timer 300
smtp wait 20
smtp trace 1
smtp maxclients 10
smtp beep on
smtp gateway 205.198.205.1
smtp verbose on
smtp delay 600
smtp batch off

# Setup Network News Transfer Protocol parameters 
nntp groups demon.ip.support.atari comp.sys.atari.st 
nntp addserver news.3rdplanet.com 600 
nntp dir \spool\articles\
nntp trace 1
nntp verbose on
nntp batch on 16
nntp safety off
nntp newgroups on

# function keys F1-10   59-68    (do not use 68)
# sh F1-f10             84-93
# ct f1-f10             94-103
# at f1-f10             104-113
# help                  98
fkey 59 "so\n"
fkey 61 "nntp kick\n"
fkey 62 "ftp\n"
fkey 67 "ppp sl0 lcp close\n"
fkey 84 "ls -CFa\n"
fkey 85 "cd ../\n"
fkey 86 "dir\n"
fkey 90 "open wintermute.co.uk\n"
fkey 91 "open micros.hensa.ac.uk\n"
fkey 92 "open src.doc.ic.ac.uk\n"
fkey 93 "open ftp.demon.co.uk\n"

echo refuse

# Start the servers 
start smtp
start  discard
start  finger
start ttylink

# set up the domains
domain addserver [205.198.190.100]
domain addserver [205.198.190.1]
domain addserver [205.198.190.9]
domain suffix 3rdplanet.com
domain cache clean on
domain cache size 100
domain cache wait 300

icmp echo on
icmp trace off

route add default sl0 205.198.190.1 1

log e:\logs\nos.log

time server 158.152.1.65        
time auto on

ftpopt byte
ftpopt page on
ftpopt binary

dial sl0 dial.txt
ping terra.3rdplanet.com