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Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:34:40 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman wrote:
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.

SFF Net <http://www.sff.net/> had similar problems and has the following page
of documentation on how to reconfigure your newsreader:

   http://www.sff.net/maintenance.asp

If you read LUGNET via the web interface, please disregard this.  This is only
if you read via NNTP.

--Todd



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP
 
(...) Thanks for your continued efforts, Todd. It is appreciated. Dave K (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP
 
(...) 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)
  Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP
 
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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  Important message for people connecting via NNTP
 
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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