Re: finding a server on Internet

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From: Andy Caiger
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:25

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In article <1993Jan19.124522.1@resa.afrc.ac.uk>, caiger@resa.afrc.ac.uk (Andy Caiger) writes:
> Hi there !
> 
> I've been trying out various news readers on various systems, but my attempt at
> getting GNUS to work failed. It seemed the problem was that it expected the
> NNTP server to be on the local network, whereas the only way to access the news
> feeder was via the Internet. Have I understood this correctly ? Is there any
> way round it ?

Thank you all those who mailed me. I think I did misunderstand the problem. It
still doesn't work - the only reason I can think of is that because our system
doesn't have a nameserver I had to use the Internet number of the NNTP server,
rather than its name. Does this make a difference ?

Andy
 
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