can't contact newserver news.gmain.org

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Feb 10 22:33:25 UTC 2005


On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:24:39PM -0800, Richard E Miles wrote:
 > I was trying to contact the news.gmain.org newsserver but was unable. I
 > typed slrn -nntp -h news.gmain.org --create. It said:
 > Reading startup file /etc/slrn.rc.
 > Using newsrc file /home/rmiles/.jnewsrc for server news.gmain.org.
 > Connecting to host news.gmain.org ...Failed to resolve news.gmain.org
 > slrn fatal error:
 > Failed to initialize server.
 > 
 > How do I use this news service? 
 > I also did a ping news.gmain.org and got unknown address.

I think its 'gmane', not 'gmain'

		Dave




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