The reason I was asking about the ports is that my neighbor uses
one of those, and he has to open the ports to do anything.

George


John Albee wrote:
> 
> As a work around I would just find the local server I use which was
> news.phnx3.az.home.com, but now I recieve a message from @home news servers
> when I connect using the fully qualified host name to the effect of "please
> enter "news" for your news server settings".  The Linksys firewall is just
> the standard one port Cable/DSL router from Frys Electronics.
> 
> John Albee
> guesswho911@home.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of George
> Toft
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 10:47 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: @home and news servers
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Are the ports open?  110 for POP mail, 119 for news?  Is it
> limited to @home, or do you have the same problem with any
> other provider, like Qwest or Sprint?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> George
> 
> John Albee wrote:
> >
> > I have a small question that is bugging me.  Whenever I setup a system
> > (linux or win) and connect it directly to @home using their DHCP servers,
> > entries in mail and news programs such as "mail" and "news" work
> flawlessly.
> > When I connect a network using a linux or linksys firewall that grabs
> > IP/gateway/DNS information from @home's DHCP servers and passes the exact
> > same DNS server IPs, the @home "news" and "mail" aliases will not work.
> > What is causing this?
> >
> > John Albee
> > guesswho911@home.com
> >
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