Thanks again! The trouble seems to be with my DNS system - if I contact the newsserver with its numeric address, then gnus seems to work fine.
-Alasdair > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:26:51 +1100, Alasdair wrote: > >> Thanks for your reply. I don't think it's a permission problem, as I can >> connect quite nicely using knode (which is what I'm using at the moment. >> But knode's a bit slow and inefficient). It seems to be a problem >> somehow with connecting from within emacs. > > Perhaps you could run "sudo ngrep -Wbyline port 119" while connecting > with knode and one of the others, and see if you can spot the > difference? > > > Best regards, > _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
