With patience akin to a cat's, Phillip Jones, on 5/25/2010 4:00 PM typed:
I've been working for last half hour to get anything from
eternal-september. Now I am getting a can't find LDAP server.
I am going to do without USENET. I am tired of having to tear my hair
out. Mozilla, Netscape. Annexcafe, sand msnews Microsoft work fine.
From the e-s support group:
-------- Original Message --------
From: Ray Banana <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: eternal-september.support
Subject: Re: authentication server problem??
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 09:31:26 +0200
Organization: A noiseless patient spider
Lines: 23
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
Thus spake "greybeard" <[email protected]>
> Hello Support.
> The authentication server has been repeating requesting a password.
> Normally this is not requested, being loaded into reader, but when
> refreshed, still fails to authenticate.
To be precise, it's your client that repeatedly asks for your
password. The error message from the server, however, stated that no
LDAP (authentication server) could be reached. In fact, the master LDAP
server failed last night and, while there are two standby servers
available, these will only be tried when the primary server either
rejects to connection or there is a connection timeout. In this case,
the connection request to the master server would wait for several
minutes, although the timeout in the LDAP client is set to 5 seconds.
This caused newsreader connections to fail as well as the web site
slowing down while waiting for a reply from the LDAP server. It also
affected user registrations and password change/retrieval requests.
Fixed this morning at 3 o'clock UTC
-------- End Original Message --------
Servers fail. It happens. I've been using ES since it was Motzarella and
this is the first major connection problem that I've personally experienced.
Not certain of your own track record, but it seems a bit scorched earth to
write off ES because of an isolated server failure--just my two whiskers
worth.
There are other free newsservers available with varying reliability. I've
found ES to be the best of the lot, and Ray to be a capable admin. I keep
AIOE as a backup source just in case. Helpful in situations like these,
which are rare, IME, for ES.
Purrs from a rainy Pacific Northwest --
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