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| | | Due to a recent distributed denial of service attack, we have shut down NNTP service on port 119 to prevent further service interruptions. Alternate ports 1119, 8000, and 8080 are still available. --Todd (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | | | | Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP — Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) SFF Net (URL) had similar problems and has the following page of documentation on how to reconfigure your newsreader: (URL) you read LUGNET via the web interface, please disregard this. This is only if you read via NNTP. --Todd (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP —David Koudys
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| | | | | | | (...) Thanks for your continued efforts, Todd. It is appreciated. Dave K (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) As I said offline, I fear this may not be enough, I still get lots of return code 0s from posting. (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP —Ronald Vallenduuk
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| | | | | | Not working for me. Using Outlook Express I get errors 0x800CCC13 and 0x800CCC15, 'Unable to read Winsock reply' and 'Unable to open Windows Socket'. Can anyone help me with this? Thanx, Duq (...) (21 years ago, 28-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Did you move to port 1119? You didn't say if you had, but if you haven't, you might try that. Did you try repeatedly and check that the web access was working at the time that you got the failure? My experience has been that service is still (...) (21 years ago, 28-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP —Ronald Vallenduuk
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| | | | | | Sorry to have bothered you guys with this. It was just me being stupid: forgot to open port 1119 on the firewall.... All's fine again now. Duq (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | (...) Oh, that's the deal. Thanks Todd, for all your hard work! Rob (21 years ago, 27-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | (...) Todd, I would consider Emailing everyone registered with Lugnet and explaining the situation and providing guidance how to go about fixing their news reader so thay can start posting again. -Orion (21 years ago, 28-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP —Thomas Garrison
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| | | | (...) Additionally (assuming that port 119 is permanently turned off) it would be a good idea to change "Setting up a newsreader" in (URL) de-emphasize port 119 and possibly provide links for how to use a non-default nntp port in various newsreaders (...) (21 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP —Kerry Raymond
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| | | | (...) If the problem has gone away, is it possible to re-enable the port? I don't seem to be able to use the alternate ports, probably because of my organisation's firewall. Kerry (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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