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Re: Important message for people connecting via NNTP
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Date: 
Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:01:16 GMT
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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


In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman wrote:
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



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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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(...) 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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