Re: Tin problem - reconnection always needed?

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:47:47PM -0500, Joey Mukherjee wrote:
> I've been using tin for years, and have never had a problem until now.
> 
> When I run tin and try to connect to my news server, it will connect  
> and then almost immediately say:
> 
> Connection to news server has timed out. Reconnect? (Y/n) Y
> 
> If I answer Y, it will connect and keep doing the connect/reconnect  
> in an endless loop or until I hit N.  If I set the option in tinrc  
> for auto-reconnect, it will hang forever.
> 
> I am using tin 1.9.2, but have tried 1.7.5 and 1.8.3 and they are all  
> having this problem.  I'm not sure how it started, but it seemed to  
> come about when I tried installing v1.9.2.  Furthermore, this error  
> occurs on any NNTPSERVER and it only occurs with tin.  I can use  
> Sylpheed just fine, but I'd rather use tin.
> 
> I am running this on Solaris v9 in case that makes a difference.
> 
> Any ideas?

looks like the server(s) you use do not like tins initial command sequence.
you could compile tin with debugging enabled (DEBUG set in src/Makefile) and
start tin with
	tin -D 1 [your usual cmd-line flags]
and then look into the file
	/tmp/NNTP
this should show you where your server closes the connection. if you post
the file be sure to mask your username/password in the file.

urs
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