[arch-general] leafnode not allowing connection (connection refused)

[Geoffrey Lane]

I'm just playing around a bit with leafnode. It installed ok, and no 
dependancy crud. But I cannot connect to it

The FQDN is set to my dynamic dns server
my leafnode config file has been setup with user/pass, server, port
my hosts.allow/deny are actually removed for now, and there is no 
firewall running

I can run the leafnode program/daemon and it shows it is running

//
200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.11.7 running at [dns] (my fqdn: [dns])
//

I should be able to use slrn or even telnet to connect but it says 
connection refused. I looked in the logs for refusal or error msg and 
all I found was in News.log -- and there didn't seem to be problems.

Here's the output, it seems to say the connection to x-privat was 
successfull:

//

Nov 26 23:06:11 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: connected to 
194.177.98.144:119, reply: 200
Nov 26 23:06:12 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: 0 articles 
posted.
Nov 26 23:06:13 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: getting all 
newsgroups (debug: active: nil, forceactive: true)
Nov 26 23:06:19 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: <215 list of newsgroup names follow
Nov 26 23:06:28 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: reading 
server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.x-privat.org
Nov 26 23:06:28 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: wrote active file with 22485 lines
Nov 26 23:06:28 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: child has process ID 6070
Nov 28 16:23:26 Desktop leafnode[30420]: connect from (local file) (no 
IP) to [dns] (no IP) (my fqdn: [dns])
//

Oh and initial fetch does work:

//
[root at Desktop log]# sudo fetchnews -vvv -n alt.os.linux.ubuntu -x 2000
leafnode 1.11.7: verbosity level is 3, debugmode is 0
Don't automatically unsubscribe unread newsgroups.
try_lock(timeout=5), fqdn="[fqdn]"
news.x-privat.org: connecting to port nntp...
news.x-privat.org: connected to 194.177.98.144:119, reply: 200
news.x-privat.org: connected.
news.x-privat.org: using STAT <message-ID> command.
news.x-privat.org: authenticated as [user]
news.x-privat.org: 0 articles posted.
news.x-privat.org: getting new newsgroups
news.x-privat.org: got 0 new newsgroups.
news.x-privat.org: reading server info from 
/var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.x-privat.org
news.x-privat.org: conversation completed, disconnected.
wrote active file with 22485 lines
Started process to update overview data in the background.
Network activity has finished.
//


Anybody have any ideas why the connection is refused? I'm not sure which 
avenue to follow now since it won't even allow localhost. I saw no howto 
for arch so not sure if there are any additional steps needed.

I've more or less followed the howto for ubuntu here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=676837

I'd appreciate any help at all
thankies
Geo

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