On 30/04/2013 12:48 PM, F Murtz wrote:
David Cox wrote:
On 29/04/2013 2:18 PM, F Murtz wrote:
I have just recieved an email from bigpond giving detailed instructions
on how to connect to bigpond ng so it appears that the stories on its
demise are exagerated. I would post the email but it has an instruction
not to repost.
I still can not recieve it but that is probably a problem between
seamonkey, my modem and bigpond server,I think it needs my password but
I can not figure a way to make it ask for it.
What happens when you try to telnet the news server?
You should get something like
> telnet news.bigpond.com 119
200 Welcome Message (<news server id>)
If you do connect, use "quit" without the quotes to exit.
This assumes that your secret instructions did not change the port
number from the default of 119.
I get
Connecting To news.bigpond.com...Could not open connection to the host,
on port 119: Connect failed
djc
If I ping it it tries 4 times and says timed out.
I don't think pinging that server has worked for a long time - unless
the daemon is running it just ignores the ping and hence the time out.
That's why you should try to telnet the nntp server itself.
Here's a couple of examples:
This still works:
=====
telnet news.thundernews.com 119
200 Welcome Message (newsfe10.iad)
quit
205 Goodbye
Connection to host lost.
=====
And another (telstra) one with a different response
====
telnet reader.news.telstra.net 119
502 pit-reader.telstra.net: Access denied to your node -
[email protected]
Connection to host lost.
====
So what do YOU get when you try to telnet to bigpond news server?
Rememberm this removes seamonkey from the picture.
The connect failed that I get says that port 119 is open, but that the
NNTP server is not running, at least not listening to port 119. Hence my
other question about your secret email - did it talk about port 119,
another port, or none. If none, then the default of 119 is expected.
djc
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