 | | Unable to connect via NNTP —Kevin Wilson
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| | | For the past 3 days or so I've been unable to get my newsreader (Outlook Express) to connect to the LUGNET News server. (I"m posting this via the we interface). Has anything changed? ANyone else having trouble? Kevin (23 years ago, 24-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | "Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:GtI2D1.1ts@lugnet.com... (...) we (...) Not at all - I've just read this via NNTP and posted my reply that way. Dan (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | | Daniel Crichton wrote in message ... (...) I just increased my server timeout setting from 1 min to 2, and that seems to have done it. Don't know why it should need the longer setting now after 3 years of being happy on the previous one! Kevin (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Mike Faunce
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| | | | | (...) I'm having problems too. I Figured it was a temporary problem at their end as I'm not having any problems with any other NNTP servers. I just tried increasing my timeout from 1 min to 2 as the other poster did, but still no luck for me. Mike (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | | Mike Faunce wrote in message ... (...) I can connect now, but it takes a looooong time. Kevin ---...--- TOWN Lego Building contest! (URL) Hospital 2396 piece kit! (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Mike Faunce
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| | | | | | "Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:GtL976.2uq@lugnet.com... (...) end (...) no (...) Definitely taking MUCH MUCH longer than normal. It's taking several minutes to update low traffic groups like admin.general - with 6 (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | (...) Hmmm. Probably doesn't help much, but I just connected using Outlook Express (1st time for months!) and it was quick. Posted a message, authentication email took less than 2 minutes, message appeared in newsgroup less than a minute after (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | | (...) minutes (...) the (...) I'm now getting errors when I *send* messages too... of the ones I sent yesterday, several took a long time to appear and one never got through at all - I got this message back: Your message has been enqueued and (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mail posting (was Re: Unable to connect via NNTP) —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | (...) [snip] (...) correct me if I'm wrong, but you're trying to send a message via mail, not via nntp, right? from what you posted it seems like your mail server was not able to look up the correct DNS entry for LUGNET (Failed MX lookup; try again (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mail posting (was Re: Unable to connect via NNTP) —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | | Dan Boger wrote in message ... (...) your (...) This was when I tried to send back the email confirmation notice. The mail did eventually go through and the posting appeared (tto late to do any good by that time). (...) suggest (...) It's not a (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Chris Magno
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| | | | HI: (...) I as well, have been having a hard time reading Lugnet newsgroups. From my end nothing else has changed. I can connect to other news servers. I like others have assumed that it was a "lugnet" issue and it would clear itself up. But it has (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Dan Boger
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| | | | (...) FWIW, I too am having problems connecting to the NNTP server. It does connect, eventually, but takes about a minute or two. My guess is that it's trying to do an auth request to my machine, but my firewall is blocking the request, causing the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Carlo Ottolina
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| | | | | "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20020331000405....ron.com... (...) According to my firewall logs, the server is *not* doing auth requests (port 113). IMHO, the problem you have now is different from what happened last year: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | Dan Boger wrote in message <20020331000405.GA11...on.com>... (...) This is what's happening here too - it connects eventually, but takes 1-2 mins to do so. I am not behind a firewall of any kind. IE 5.5 on Win 95, cable modem. Not having trouble (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Chris Magno
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| | | | (...) Yes, I am behind a "NAT box" server. I have the same symptoms as you. NNTP will eventually connect. If i scan through the messages I have no problem (once in the system) but If I take too long to read one message I have to wait all over again (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | "Chris Magno" <cmagno@rogers.com> wrote in message news:3CA72DAA.842705...ers.com... (...) I'm pretty sure it's not a server problem - I get very quick connections and downloads both from home on ADSL with Outpost as my firewall and at work on a (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Chris Magno
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| | | | (...) I just did a quick tracert to news.lugnet.com and all seemed well. it took about 14 hops with an average time of about 40 ms between jumps. Sorry, I do not know how to cut and paste from a dos prompt. :( I will happily do any other diagnostics (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) In 2000 (at least) I think you can use your mouse to mark the area, then just hit enter and it should be in your cut buffer For NT or 98, you may have to first click on the upper left corner of the dosbox window (the icon), select edit from (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | Re: Unable to connect via NNTP —Chris Magno
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| | | | Strange.... All "seems" to be well. what happened? :) I can connect again, I can post and read and it all happens fairly quickly. Thank you. Chris Pretend this says something funny (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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