Re: News server Down

"Dave Nottage [TeamB]" <rot13.qnivqa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4333fa2f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Mario van Zeist wrote:
>
> I've now remembered one other piece of important information: if you
> have a firewall that allows outgoing connections on port 80 but not
> port 119, you'll see the same effect.
>
>> It looks like somebody thinks i am a bad boy :( although i havn't got
>> a clue why, is there an email adres or webpage where i can check that
>> information?
> Dave Nottage [TeamB]

Hi Dave,

Thanx for the info but that seems not to be the case

The firewall was the first thing i checked, even when the firewall is
disabled the problem still exists.

The problem is that i can reach other news servers on port 119 (Used
news.microsoft.com as a reference), but not newsgroups.borland.com.

To make sure it's not the mailreader i use i also checked Outlook express,
Here i get the same results news.microsoft.com works but
newsgroups.borland.com doesn't. The only reason i can think of is that
somewhere my ip gets blocked by borland for misbehaving, although i havn't
got a clue why.

The only reason i can think of is that i use to download all new messages
from the newsgroups.borland server every 10 minutes, and that that is the
reason i get blocked, although the guidelines don't specify a minimum time
between message downloads,

best regards,
Mario van Zeist.


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