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From: Verdell Hicks <verdell@novalink.com>
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Okay,
	It is hard to see the logic in my original nameserver question.  This
is the problem.  The Machines name is loki.novalink.com with a canonical
name of news.novalink.com.  When our news feed does a reverse lookup on
news.novalink.com's IP address it denies me to post news messages.  How
about I show you what he said.


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	Verdell,

        The problem appears to be in the PTR record in your DNS.  Please
observe.

nslookup news.novalink.com
Server:  ns.pcy.mci.net
Address:  204.70.138.79
 
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    loki.novalink.com
Address:  192.233.90.158
Aliases:  news.novalink.com

That much is perfect, BUT...

nslookup 192.233.90.158
Server:  ns.pcy.mci.net
Address:  204.70.138.79
 
Name:    loki.novalink.com
Address:  192.233.90.158

Since the PTR record does not resolve with the alias, newsfeed is
denying you 
access.  Please correct the PTR record so that is resolves identically
to
the A record.

Thanks,

                        Jeremy W. Powell 
             InternetMCI Usenet News Administrator
                          Arlington,VA
                         jeremy@mci.net
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Does it make more since now?  Actually I am having even bigger problems
now.  I made the mistake of modfying my active file for inn and now the
system keeps responding to me with cant symlink the different messages. 
Furthermore it seems like it only get messages the first time it
connects to mci, after that everything is all zeros.  Everything worked
great before I modified that damn active file.  I saved the original and
copied it back to active and it is still screwed up.  I cant get the
command line right to renumber the entire active file.  This is a real
nightmare.  News isn't working right now and I am soo tired till the
answer wouldn't be apparent to me if it were right in my face.  If
anyone has any suggestions please send them along.


													Verdell