Hi, I'm sorry, I tried to submit a bug report via the SourceForge project page, but could not find any buttons or links on the 'bugs' and 'tracker' pages that would let me submit a new bug report.

I am using Mailman 2.0.13 as included RedHat Linux 7.2.

When mailman is unable to make an nntp connection to a News host, it returns an error of the form shown below. In this error message it does not specify to which host it was trying to connect. This seems like a minor thing. But in fact, due to this omission, I spent a lot of time debugging a connection failure problem. I did not realize that due to a DNS and /etc/hosts inconsistency, mailman was trying to connect to the wrong host.

Rahul

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:05:36 -0800 (PST) From: Cron Daemon <root@pink.rahul.net> To: mailman@rahul.net Subject: Cron <mailman@pink> /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/gate_news

Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? main() File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main process_lists(lock) File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 148, in process_lists conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist) File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 75, in open_newsgroup password=mm_cfg.NNTP_PASSWORD) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 111, in __init__ self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port)) socket.error: (113, 'No route to host')

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