From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61703 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gmane spam reporting problems moving between networks Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:13:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87lkyq3a60.fsf@dod.no> <871wz5rcom.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137666119 18864 80.91.229.2 (19 Jan 2006 10:21:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:21:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10233@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 19 11:21:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EzWvT-0002Ws-Dv for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:21:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EzWvL-0000jQ-00; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:21:47 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EzWoL-0000jK-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:14:33 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EzWoG-0000GY-JI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:14:33 -0600 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EzWo9-00041H-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:14:21 +0100 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (jas@yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id k0JAEHmj028554 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:14:18 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt X-Hashcash: 1:21:060119:ding@gnus.org::2QIXMIB+2vyZCwW3:udP In-Reply-To: <871wz5rcom.fsf@dod.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:35:37 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on yxa-iv X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61703 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: > The message I'm responding to, is to the head of a thread dealing with > problems I had with NNTP servers when hibernating and moving my laptop > between home and work. I couldn't connect to the server, because Gnus > couldn't resolve their names. > > Now I'm seeing the same problem when exiting a gmane group and trying > to report spam in that group: Gnus can't find spam.gmane.org, which is > perfectly pingable from a shell. > > The NNTP problem was most probably caused by libc caching the DNS > server to use for a process, so that gethostbyname() would issue calls > to a DNS server that was no longer available. I got around this > problem by wrapping the NNTP connections in telnet sessions (new > telnet processes would get the current DNS server). > > Is it possible to do something similar with the gmane spam reporting? > Either wrap the HTTP requests done from Emacs in a telnet, or use curl > or wget, or something? Wouldn't running a DNS server on localhost work? Then you'd have the same DNS server address regardless of IP of your local machine.