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fail to log in

Posted: August 22nd, 2011, 7:58 am
by ikkythebulltosser
Have had no problem using before now started giving this notice any help would be appreciated

(10061, 'Failed to connect: (10060, "(10061, \'Connection refused\')") -1@eunews.blocknews.net:9000')




Ikky

Re: fail to log in

Posted: August 22nd, 2011, 9:21 am
by shypike
9000 is a very unusual port number for Usenet servers.
Are you sure it's the right one?
Have you tried the usual port 119?
Most servers have separate ports for normal and SSL traffic.
Make sure the SSL box is on or off, depending on the port number.

Re: fail to log in

Posted: August 22nd, 2011, 2:27 pm
by sander
Interesting:
1) eunews.blocknews.net does not react to port 9000
2) usnews.blocknews.net does react on port 9000

HTH

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sander@R540:~$ telnet eunews.blocknews.net 9000
Trying 178.22.82.40...
Trying 178.22.82.42...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused


sander@R540:~$ telnet usnews.blocknews.net 9000
Trying 198.186.190.120...
Connected to usnews.blocknews.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 news.blocknews.net NNRP Service Ready - support@blocknews.net (posting ok)
help
100 Legal commands
	date
	mode reader
	article MessageID
	body MessageID
	head MessageID
	listgroup newsgroup
	xgtitle [group_pattern]
	newgroups yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] [<distributions>]
	xhdr header [range|MessageID]
	hdr header [range|MessageID]
	over [range]
	xover [range]
	list [active|active.times|newsgroups|extensions|distributions|distrib.pats|moderators|overview.fmt|subscriptions]
	quit
.
quit
205 Thanks for playing.	Disconnecting.
Connection closed by foreign host.
sander@R540:~$