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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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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(...) Hard to know for sure. More and more, it's seeming like the former rather than the latter. Early on, the attacks all consisted of commands to repeatedly list the contents of known existing newsgroups on this server, which made it seem (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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Todd, Could you cancel my previous message to this group? I was grumpy from lugnet withdrawl and posted without thinking first. Don (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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