| Bryon Lape 2004-01-23, 7:34 pm |
| On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:16:37 -0500, Jim Fischer wrote:
quote:
> Bryon Lape wrote:
>
> Can you ping and/or traceroute to your NNTP newsgroup server? If you
> cannot, the LinkSys router is probably not the problem. For example, if
> the DNS name of the NNTP server is 'news.myisp.net', try the following:
>
> [you]$ ping -c 10 news.myisp.net
>
> [you]$ /usr/sbin/traceroute -I news.myisp.net
>
> Also, have you contacted your ISP about this problem? FWIW, I had no
> Usenet access for about 3 days last week, so the problem may be with
> your ISP (or the Usenet service that your ISP uses) and not with your
> hardware.
I can ping through the firewall and trace fine. I can even telnet to port
119. All via number or name. My ISP is Earthlink and they rotate the IPs
for the servers from DNS.
I did try using a IP number and not name in the newsreaders. No
connection.
As for technical support, as soon as they know you have hardware they
don't sell, the say they don't support it and the buck stops there.
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