Re: IDN News Groups (was ODBC to Linux connection. Error -956?)
On Tue, 01 Sep 1998 12:52:49 -0400, "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote: >Jonathan Leffler wrote: >> >> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Art S. Kagel wrote: >> > Joshua R. Poulson wrote: >> > > Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com (Nils Myklebust) writes: >> > > > That news group isn't part of the standard usenet news groups, but >> > > > rather one you can only access via Informix's own news server. You >> > > > can find that by going to http://www.informix.com/idn and go to the >> > > > Linux part. >> > > >> > > Actually, even within Informix I cannot access informix.idn.linux >> > >> > There is apparently a problem access these groups through a firewall. >> > I cannot get there either. Try from home where the connection is >> > cleaner. If you can get there from home the filewall problem is it. >> >> I am able to access both newsgroups: >> >> news://www.informix.com/informix.idn.linux >> news://www.informix.com/informix.idn.dynamic4gl >> >> and I can do so both at the office (admittedly in the Menlo Park HQ, not >> a regional office such as Portland where Joshua works), and at home >> (from my Earthlink account). > >Sorry Jonathan, as the New England stereotype says: "Can't get there >from heeeyaa!" I will talk to our firewall people and if I can find a >way around the problem myself I'll post the results. > >Art S. Kagel Same here. I am waiting for the firewall peoples feedback. That takes a lot of time as they are occupied with things they view as more important. If I don't get it soon we will have to start talking to Informix about setting up a more sensible solution. That should be based on a news group like setup accessible via a normal web browser and the option to select a standard mailing list. These are easy enough to implement so they should probably do them whatever our firewall people say. Getting news through firewalls isn't something most people can these days. Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)