Subject: Pine/PC-NFS

From: Linda Lancki <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 09:00:54 -0400 (EDT)

Hello,

I have been trying to get pc-pine to work with PC-NFS (various versions)
but have not been successful.  I get the following error message:

	Opening INBOX

	Host not found: atlas.chemistry.uakron.edu

where, atlas.chemistry.uakron.edu is our mailhost.  The PC is a 286
running PC-NFS version 3.5 using an EtherLink 3c503 ethernet card.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

						Linda Lancki

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 10:39:56 -0700 (PDT)

I presume that other PC-NFS applications (e.g. telnet) can access
atlas.chemistry.uakron.edu without problem?  Checking our nameserver, it
appears that atlas.chemistry.uakron.edu is a dual-homed host (has two
ethernet addresses).  The reason I mention this is that we have recently
recieved a couple other similar reports that we have been unable to explain
with PC-Pine trying to access dual-homed hosts.  A second problem I noticed
is that atlas.chemistry.uakron.edu does not appear to have an IMAP server
running. 

If you are still unable to get PC-Pine running, please send details to 
[email-masked].  Thanks!

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

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From: [email-masked] (Neil Hoggarth)
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 10:28:36 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>running PC-NFS version 3.5 using an EtherLink 3c503 ethernet card.

Can the PC resolve the name to an IP address? Can you get IP packets
back and forth between the mailhost and the PC? Try ping and telnet from
the DOS command line - this should give you some clues as to where the
problem lies.

PC-NFS uses NIS for name resolution. Have you tried pointing Pine at
"atlas" or "atlas.chemistry" rather than the full domain name?

Regards,

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