I got it to work. You must be connected via dial-up and then the test of the news group server works OK..
Thanks At 06:22 PM 9/30/04 +0200, you wrote: >Try it with a telnet client > telnet <news_server> 119 >What does it give? > > >Dirk. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of gene Martinez >Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 2:06 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [SA-list] checking newsgroups servers > >I was asking if you know if I need to be connected to the dial-up account >to make the check of the newsgroug server. I can ping the server from my >cable account, but the check fails with >(connection possible but received data not correct) when checked from the >cable access. > >At 01:02 PM 9/30/04 +0200, you wrote: >>I'm not saying that you need dial-up access, I understood from your mail >>that it needed dial-up in order to check this. >>Maybe I'm not understanding correctly what the problem is. >> >> >>Dirk. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf >>Of gene Martinez >>Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:16 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: RE: [SA-list] checking newsgroups servers >> >>No, I had though that I could check it from the cable connection, as this >>pc does not have dial-up access. I see what I can do to have it dial-in. >> >>Thanks >> >>At 06:36 AM 9/30/04 +0200, you wrote: >>>Did you configure this check to use the dial-up connection to reach the >>>system? >>> >>> >>> >>>Dirk. >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>Behalf >>>Of gene Martinez >>>Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:28 AM >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Subject: [SA-list] checking newsgroups servers >>> >>>I have Salive (laterst version beta) running on my home network. I connect >>>to the internet with cable. I also have an old dial-up account that I use >>>for different newsgroups. I wanted to set Salive to check the newsgroup >>>server (as it was down all day). I have Salive set to ping the server and >>>this worked even though you could not get to the server (timed out). I >>>added an NNTP check but it fails. I checked the log and get the following. > >>>(connection possible but received data not correct) I'm doing the check >>>from my cable connection, because the box that's running Salive does not >>>have dial-up access. Is this what's wrong (not dialing into that account) >>>to do the check?? >>> >>>Thanks.. >>>Regards, >>> >>>Gene >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://www.eclipse.net/~njkat >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------- >>> >>>[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >>> >>>To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>With the following in the body of the message: >>> unsubscribe SAlive >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------- >>> >>>[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >>> >>>To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>With the following in the body of the message: >>> unsubscribe SAlive >>> >>> >>Regards, >> >>Gene >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.eclipse.net/~njkat >> >> >> >>------------------------- >> >>[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >> >>To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>With the following in the body of the message: >> unsubscribe SAlive >> >> >> >> >> >> >>------------------------- >> >>[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >> >>To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>With the following in the body of the message: >> unsubscribe SAlive >> >> >Regards, > >Gene > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.eclipse.net/~njkat > > > >------------------------- > >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > >To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > > > > > > >------------------------- > >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > >To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > > Regards, Gene [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eclipse.net/~njkat ------------------------- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
