[leafnode-list] Puzzling problem with 2.0b7

[krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel)]

Fetchnews refuses to connect to a machine which is clearly there:

~% /usr/local/sbin/fetchnews -nvvvDDS news.informatik.uni-wuerzbuerg.de
2.0b7: verbosity level is 3
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Trying to connect to news.informatik.uni-wuerzbuerg.de ... failed.
0 articles fetched, 0 killed, in 2 seconds
~% tail -1 /var/log/news/news.notice
Jan  4 14:40:13 wpxx02 fetchnews[31600]: cannot resolve news.informatik.uni-wuerzbuerg.de: no such host
~% host news.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
news.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de is a nickname for wrzx08.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de
wrzx08.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de has address 132.187.3.8
wrzx08.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de has address 132.187.3.8
~%  telnet news.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de nntp
Trying 132.187.3.8...
Connected to wrzx08.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 wrzx08.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de DNEWS Version 5.3d2, S0, posting OK 
quit
205 closing connection - goodbye!
Connection closed by foreign host.
~%

Why is that? (Calling fetchnews with IP instead of name works fine.)

--Cornelius.

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