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    From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 24 16:28:46 2022
    Sorry to be bringing back old scores.

    Leafnode insists that I use a proper FQDN. At that time, I was using my allocated domain name, as I still do. Bits recommended that I replace
    the term "net" with something else. I did not follow his advice, but I
    never explained why.

    The first reason was that Bits had already tried his recommended term,
    and had run into problems. The second reason was that to be an FQDN.
    the whole string must be parseable by the DNS servers. Any term they recognized (.com, .net, .asn, and similar) would be O.K., but anything
    else in that position would probably throw up a syntax error. It seemed logical to use the name already assigned to me.

    Doug.

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 24 18:04:28 2022
    On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:28:46 -0400, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

    Sorry to be bringing back old scores.

    Leafnode insists that I use a proper FQDN. At that time, I was using my allocated domain name, as I still do. Bits recommended that I replace
    the term "net" with something else. I did not follow his advice, but I
    never explained why.

    The first reason was that Bits had already tried his recommended term,
    and had run into problems. The second reason was that to be an FQDN.
    the whole string must be parseable by the DNS servers. Any term they recognized (.com, .net, .asn, and similar) would be O.K., but anything
    else in that position would probably throw up a syntax error. It seemed logical to use the name already assigned to me.

    Is there a question in there somewhere?

    # grep -v -e ^'#' -e ^$ /etc/leafnode/config
    expire = 20
    server = localhost
    port = 564
    username = dwhodgins
    password = <munged>
    timeout = 300
    timeout_fetchnews = 300
    initialfetch = 500
    nodesc = 1
    maxage = 5
    filterfile = /etc/leafnode/filters
    debugmode = 0
    create_all_links = 0
    allow_8bit_headers = 1
    article_despite_filter = 1
    noxover = 1

    I do use an fqdn in my message id, configured in my newsreader.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Tue Oct 25 01:03:57 2022
    On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 02:28:46 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    Sorry to be bringing back old scores.

    And as usual you fail to provide any information like actual error message current machine FQDN and Leafnode config file contents less id/password. :(

    Leafnode insists that I use a proper FQDN. At that time, I was using my allocated domain name, as I still do. Bits recommended that I replace
    the term "net" with something else. I did not follow his advice, but I
    never explained why.

    The first reason was that Bits had already tried his recommended term,
    and had run into problems. The second reason was that to be an FQDN.
    the whole string must be parseable by the DNS servers. Any term they recognized (.com, .net, .asn, and similar) would be O.K., but anything
    else in that position would probably throw up a syntax error. It seemed logical to use the name already assigned to me.


    $ hostname --fqdn # shows machine FQDN
    wb.home.test

    $ grep $(hostname --fqdn) /etc/hosts # shows machine LAN ip address fqdn and alias
    192.168.50.132 wb.home.test wb

    to see my WAN ip address and FQDN I can do a
    $ traceroute $(wget -qO - http://icanhazip.com)
    traceroute to 72.181.145.117 (72.181.145.117), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
    1 isprtrwan.isprouter.net (72.181.145.117) 0.426 ms 0.479 ms 0.576 ms

    which indicates isprtrwan.isprouter.net would be my WAN FQDN




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  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Fri Nov 4 15:03:58 2022
    On 25/10/22 04:04, David W. Hodgins wrote:
    On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:28:46 -0400, Doug Laidlaw
    <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

    Sorry to be bringing back old scores.

    Leafnode insists that I use a proper FQDN.  At that time, I was using my
    allocated domain name, as I still do.  Bits recommended that I replace
    the term "net" with something else.  I did not follow his advice, but I
    never explained why.

    The first reason was that Bits had already tried his recommended term,
    and had run into problems.  The second reason was that to be an FQDN.
    the whole string must be parseable by the DNS servers.  Any term they
    recognized (.com, .net, .asn, and similar) would be O.K., but anything
    else in that position would probably throw up a syntax error.  It seemed
    logical to use the name already assigned to me.

    Is there a question in there somewhere?

    # grep -v -e ^'#' -e ^$ /etc/leafnode/config
    expire = 20
    server = localhost
    port = 564
    username = dwhodgins
    password = <munged>
    timeout = 300
    timeout_fetchnews = 300
    initialfetch = 500
    nodesc = 1
    maxage = 5
    filterfile = /etc/leafnode/filters
    debugmode = 0
    create_all_links = 0
    allow_8bit_headers = 1
    article_despite_filter = 1
    noxover = 1

    I do use an fqdn in my message id, configured in my newsreader.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

    No, just a report. The maintainer regards "localhost.localdomain"
    almost as if it will cause serious damage. He believes that the default domain name is so common that a DNS server could easily connect to the
    wrong one. A proper FQDN is unique. I set it, not in
    /etc/leafnode.conf, but in the Networking setup, so that it applies
    globally. "localhost" then shows as an alias.

    Nowadays, this is the only nntp group I follow, so I no longer need
    Leafnode. Genealogy has moved to Facebook, and the depression ng is
    full of rubbish.

    Doug.

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Fri Nov 4 21:35:26 2022
    On 5/11/22 02:03, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

    Nowadays, this is the only nntp group I follow, so I no longer need Leafnode.  Genealogy has moved to Facebook, and the depression ng is
    full of rubbish.


    When first scanned it I thought that I was going to read "depression ng
    has become depressing" :-)

    Regards

    --
    faeychild
    Running plasmashell 5.20.4 on 5.15.74-desktop-1.mga8 kernel.
    Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-8-x86_64-DVD.iso



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