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From: Doug Laidlaw on 1 Dec 2009 05:22 I have been posting to newsgroups over the last few hours. I have set Leafnode to connect to my server every 2 hours, but once again, nothing is happening. When I run "fetchnews -Pv" I see: reader.news.telstra.net: connecting to port nntp... reader.news.telstra.net: connected. reader.news.telstra.net: using STAT <message-ID> command. Then it stays like that until in the end, Leafnode gives up. The server usually comes back about 4 a.m. I am still wondering why my in-laws bought shares in Telstra! Doug. -- Farewell happy fields Where joy for ever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail. -- Milton's description of marriage in Paradise Lost.
From: David Schwartz on 2 Dec 2009 03:08 On Dec 1, 2:22 am, Doug Laidlaw <blackh...(a)afraid.org> wrote: > I have been posting to newsgroups over the last few hours. I have set > Leafnode to connect to my server every 2 hours, but once again, nothing is > happening. When I run "fetchnews -Pv" I see: > > reader.news.telstra.net: connecting to port nntp... > reader.news.telstra.net: connected. > reader.news.telstra.net: using STAT <message-ID> command. > > Then it stays like that until in the end, Leafnode gives up. The server > usually comes back about 4 a.m. It is not unusual for news servers to stop serving requests once a day to perform various forms of housekeeping. It's also not unusual for neglected news server to gradually spend more and more time doing this housekeeping. Report it to the administrator of the news server. DS
From: Wanna-Be Sys Admin on 2 Dec 2009 18:21
Doug Laidlaw wrote: > I have been posting to newsgroups over the last few hours. I have set > Leafnode to connect to my server every 2 hours, but once again, > nothing is > happening. When I run "fetchnews -Pv" I see: > > reader.news.telstra.net: connecting to port nntp... > reader.news.telstra.net: connected. > reader.news.telstra.net: using STAT <message-ID> command. > > Then it stays like that until in the end, Leafnode gives up. The > server usually comes back about 4 a.m. > > I am still wondering why my in-laws bought shares in Telstra! > > Doug. Not really appropriate for a networking group. If you think it's the app, check for a group for that news reader. If you think it's the ISP and their news service, check with them. ISP's rarely have any goodf support for usenet, if at all. I use a national cable company and almost daily the third party NNTP provider goes down saying there's too many connections (from me, though they really mean from my provider, or they are just having problems, because I'll log in after two+ days and have that error), so I just have to wait for it to be corrected by them. That's not helping usenet at all. -- Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything. |