On 7/15/2013 2:42 AM, Daniel wrote: > Lee wrote: >> On 7/14/13, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I use Teranews.com for my Usenet account, and have two accounts for it, >>> free.teranews.com has my forty-odd general usenet groups, and >>> 69.16.185.252 (the equivalent of free.teranews.com) >> >> Maybe they changed the server IP addresses. See what you get with an >> nslookup free.teranews.com. >> >> $ nslookup free.teranews.com. >> Non-authoritative answer: >> Server: Broadband_Router.home >> Address: 192.168.1.1 >> >> Name: news.iad.highwinds-media.com >> Addresses: 69.16.179.22 >> 69.16.179.23 >> Aliases: free.teranews.com >> news.geo.highwinds-media.com >> >> >> Regards, >> Lee >> >> >>> ... is for my dozen or >>> so computer usage groups, however..... >>> >>> For the past few days, this second account has been timing out, so I've >>> got no access to these groups. >>> >>> The first account works, but (as you're probably aware) there's very >>> little activity on any of the general groups, some but not much! >>> >>> I cannot recall anything I've done which might have broken this second >>> account! >>> >>> Has anybody got any suggestions as to how I can get the account >>> responding correctly?? Should I remove the account entries from the >>> password manager and hope I get asked to enter them, again?? Any other >>> suggestions?? >>> >>> TIA >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel > > Lee, thanks for the response, but note for the future ... If someone > post to a group/list, then chances are they will be checking the > group/list for any responses, so there is no need for you to post to > their email account as well!! No biggie!! > > I wouldn't expect Teranews to go changing their server IP address > without telling people it's going to happen, but it seems something has > changed, so I might have to change the address, as you suggest. >
It is rarely a good idea to use an IP address in place of a domain name. If a server has to be taken out of service for maintenance or repair, its replacement will have a different IP address. That replacement, however, might only be temporary, which means you will have to keep changing the IP address to which you refer. Furthermore, where servers are mirrored (several identical servers, all with the same domain name), a particular server -- with its unique IP address -- might be allowed to die without replacement. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Concerned about someone (e.g., the government) snooping into your E-mail? Use PGP. See my <http://www.rossde.com/PGP/> _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
