Re: tin stopped working
Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:59:57 -0400 (EDT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.tin.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, [email protected] wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 07:24:50AM -0700, Matrix Mole wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Urs Jan?en <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 02:54:33PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: >>>> Comcast has not responded to my query about problems >>>> with news.comcast.net. >>> >>> if you can >>> telnet news.comcast.net 119 >>> tin should work, if you can't then something (server down, firewall, ...) >>> blocks the connection. >> >> I agree with the >> telnet news.comcast.net 119 >> idea. >> >> Another question to bring up, is comcast one of those companies that >> has removed newsgroups from their service being offered to their >> members? If so, then you'll never get back in and will need to find >> another nntp provider unfortunately. > > I tried that command, but never got a console prompt. I did get a > message that the connection timed out. > > I got no message from Comcast saying that they were discontinuing > newsgroups. Their faq says http://help.comcast.net/content/faqtree/internet/bcb66d77-991d-4b53-b0f9-5046fae03d1c#aabb92b9-fba1-4661-9b68-8703606fcef7 What are the Comcast News Server Settings? The Comcast News server settings are as follows: NNTP Server: newsgroups.comcast.net User name: your Comcast.net Primary email address (example: [email protected]) Password: your Comcast.net password And ping says ~ (101) ping newsgroups.comcast.net PING netnews.comcast.net (216.196.97.136) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from comcast.dca.giganews.com (216.196.97.136): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=27.0 ms 64 bytes from comcast.dca.giganews.com (216.196.97.136): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=9.32 ms 64 bytes from comcast.dca.giganews.com (216.196.97.136): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=10.0 ms --- netnews.comcast.net ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2009ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 9.320/15.494/27.088/8.203 ms ~ (102) ping news.comcast.net PING news.comcast.net (209.11.136.183) 56(84) bytes of data. --- news.comcast.net ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1015ms -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net