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Date:	Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:55:01 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: News Server Question, etc.

In <20050814173950.72718.qmail@web81403.mail.yahoo.com>, on 08/14/05
at 10:39 AM, J R FOX said:

>The SBC news servers (news.la.sbcglobal.net)have been
>down -- as best I can determine

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.

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

>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.

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

We shall see.

>For a number of things, SBC really BLOWS !

This is news?

>What is your preferred WHOIS, for the _various types_
>of lookups you ever need to do ?

The all work. You'll probably prefer one of the available internet sites
to a command line tool.

>(*) I know where to access their voice recording, but,
>offhand, does anyone know of a realtime network status
>update ONLINE for SBC ?

One would think it would be available at support.sbcglobal.net, but as you
say SBC is a poor choice for an ISP.

Steven

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