Re: Fully Qualified Domain Name

[Petr Swedock <petr@blade-runner.mit.edu>]

Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl> writes:

> Don Saklad <dsaklad@nestle.ai.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > At this end it's a at&t broadband cable internet plain text window macssh
> > http://www.macssh.com
> > to nestle.ai.mit.edu reading email with emacs rmail.
> 
> Ah, so you're running Emacs over an ssh connection.  You have an Apple
> running OS X at home with a cable connection; you use this setup to
> contact nestle.ai.mit.edu using macssh; you run Emacs on
> nestle.ai.mit.edu.  (Correct me if I'm wrong.)  In this scheme, what
> really counts is the machine nestle.ai.mit.edu; due to the ssh
> connection everything works as if you sat behind that machine.  So you
> need to find out information about nestle.ai.mit.edu.
> 
> > Trying gnus email might be a better opportunity for managing
> > favorite correspondents messages among the spam commercials.
> 
> It is also useful to read news.  ;-)  Are you already using gnus to
> read news?  If so, you probably already have a basic .gnus file with
> configurations related to Gnus.  In what follows, I assume that you
> have the following in your .gnus to indicate that you use
> "news.ai.mit.edu" as your news server.
> 
>   (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.ai.mit.edu"))

While this certainly resolves, it does not ping and does not serve 
news. (It used to).  Try 'news.lcs.mit.edu' or 'news.mit.edu'.  The
problem is most likely here.

Peace,

Petr