On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 03:02:19PM -0400, Debian user wrote: > > > > Doh. My bad. That should have been port 9000. Could you try that instead? > > > > > ** Message: Connect failed: Connection refused > > > ** Message: couldn't create a socket. > > > > That looks to me as if the forwarding isn't working. The telnet output > > should be able to confirm that. > > I cannot telnet to localport 9000 either by using telnet. > > But I cannot connect to port 9000 by using port forwarding as in I can > forward a tunnel connection to it. I also connect to the tunnel service > for web browsing and I cannot connect to port 9000 to browse the web.
I don't think I understand this. If you have a tunnel mapped from your localhost port 9000 to a remote news server port 23 through some gateway system, telnetting to localhost port 9000 should provide the same output that a direct connection to the news servers port 23 yields. > I had no problem connecting with pan before the upgrade in etch this > past week. > > The problem started after the upgrade to 0.113 I am not convinced that the problem is related to pan. -- Søren O. "Oh, bother" said the Borg, "we've assimilated Pooh".

