topic Re: Newsgroup access in Tech Help - Software/Hardware etc

Newsgroup access

digitl — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:42:48 GMT

I subscribe to a couple of newsgroups but, for no apparent reason, Thunderbird now reports that 'Connection to server text.usenet.force9.net was reset' when I click to download new message headers. Clicking on a header then proceeds to cause Thunderbird to hang.

I suspect, but am not sure, that this may have started after the recent email outage.

Anyone able to suggest a fix?

Re: Newsgroup access

Mav — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:31:38 GMT

Moderator's note(s):

Thread moved from ADSL Broadband to Tech Help.

Re: Newsgroup access

Gandalf — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:31:30 GMT

Thanks for your post @digitl

I know we turned off the legacy Usergroups and Usertools on the 2nd September, so I wonder if this is related.

Can you remember if you were able to access Usenet after then?

Re: Newsgroup access

bobpullen — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 10:35:21 GMT

@Gandalf Usergroup/Usertools has nothing to do with our news server.

The email platform has nothing to do with the news server either.

@digitl - things look OK to me, so it's likely something local that's causing the problem.

~ % telnet text.usenet.force9.net Trying 216.166.105.145... Connected to europe.isp.giganews.com. Escape character is '^]'. 200 News.GigaNews.Com group alt.test 211 82514 4829723 4912236 alt.test article 220 4829723 <4eb735f1ac723a16.112fefc27168b897@23eef809b92a3152.31c0ee1bb4fb1d88> X-Received: by 2002:a05:6000:24b:: with SMTP id m11mr26243502wrz.393.1616990162214; Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:56:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: 6d8f101345206195-7f06148fe6290a5e-5b29bcad0d2f7062-33f994824170085d From: Test User <test-user@nospam.example> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 05:55:02 CEST Newsgroups: alt.test Message-Id: <4eb735f1ac723a16.112fefc27168b897@23eef809b92a3152.31c0ee1bb4fb1d88> Organization: XSNews Path: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!feed.abavia.com!abe002.abavia.com!abp003.abavia.com!news.xsnews.nl!not-for-mail Lines: 2 Injection-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 05:55:02 +0200 Injection-Info: news.xsnews.nl; mail-complaints-to="abuse@xsnews.nl" Bytes: 805 Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com alt.test:4829723 7c60fc1997c4c4a9 .

Re: Newsgroup access

Gandalf — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 16:25:36 GMT

Ah OK, makes sense. Thanks @bobpullen

Re: Newsgroup access

VileReynard — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 19:03:11 GMT

Usenet is still working for me via news.plus.net (port 119)

Re: Newsgroup access

digitl — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 14:54:34 GMT

Thanks, Bob

I was able (eventually) to check on another device and newsgroups were accessible from that so I reinstalled on the problematic laptop and things seem to be back to normal.