[thechat] Networking Question...

[Chris Spruck]

Dave,

Have you tried the full domain name of your news provider? For instance, my 
news server is news.mindspring.com, mail is mail.mindspring.com, etc. I 
don't think you should have to disconnect your router to ping anything, 
unless you've limited access somehow for systems on the inside end of your 
router or modem.

Hope this helps!
Chris

At 12:55 AM 4/2/01 -0600, you wrote:

>So, I just set up this router at home and I want to connect to my Usenet
>server on my ISP.  Of course they've got it set up so that the news server
>is called "news." Is there an easy way to find out what the full name of the
>news server is? Or do I have to disconnect the router and connect directly
>through my cable modem to ping the news server?
>
>-d