nntp (the protocol for news) should work through a Masq'd box. I just
checked that mine does (from a linux host, though), and I have no special
nntp module installed. So, unless the problem is some peculiarity of
Windows, I'd check these things:
1. Are you connecting to a news site that will serve you? If the
configuration work was occasioned by a service change (e.g., dialup to DSL),
your old news server may be refusing to connect to you at all. (To test
this: telnet from the Linux router to port 119 on the news server, or
simply run a news client on the Linux host and verify that you can get
service there.)
2. Check for any ipchains rules that affect port 119, the nntp port.
3. Am I correct in assuming that other services -- telnet, ftp, http, dns --
work fine from the Win98 machine? Or might the problem be more general?
At 03:57 AM 1/13/00 -0500, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote [in part]:
>After much reading, I managed to setup a Linux machine for a
>friend, running Rh6.1, on a PPPoe connection with DHCP and
>Ipchains. Ipchains provides the masquerading, DHCP provides the
>IPs for other machines on the net (for now, just one). The machine
>is a P166 with 64 MB of RAM and a 1.2 GIG HD. Everything works
>great, especially after 6 frustrating hours. I've learned a lot though.
>
>Question: news cannot be read anymore from the Win98 machine
>connected to the Linux box acting as an Ipmasquerading machine.
>Is there a solution for this? Perhaps I missed a module?
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