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Date:	Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:11:37 PDT7
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: News Server Question, etc.

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--- Steven Levine wrote:

> You are using the wrong tools to test the server.
> Try

> telnet -p 119 news.la.sbcglobal.net
>
> and you will see the server is up and responding
> sufficiently to say hi.
>
> Then issue the commands
>
> AUTHINFO USER username
> AUTHINFO PASS password
>
> with the appropriate replacements and you may better
> understand what is
> failing.

Thanks, Steven, I'll check it out.

> Also, iptrace is your friend. You should learn to
> use it.

Seems to me you've done a column or two on this. I'll
try to look it up.

> >They Pinged the news servers dotted decimal of
> >207.115.63.158, and got 100 % packet loss

> They should know that they have the servers
> configured to ignore pings.

This is indicative of what you get today, with the
*very* outsourced Tech Support. It wasn't especially
good when it was all domestic, but nowadays it is a
whole lot worse.

> >I know there is something wrong, and it ain't here.

> We shall see.

If I can get onto *someone else's* News Server, I
think that would be QED. (Latin for Proved, In
Spades.)

Jordan

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