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HairyMcbiker
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news.plus.net asking for authentication

Looks like the old problem is back again:-
[11:00:35] Level: ERROR  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=Password: Server asked for Username and Password but, They aren't set
Going via gw4. (just reconnected as nntp was slow)
update:-
Just reconnected now via ag1 no problems, so looks like a problem with gw4 (vlan8.pih-gw4.plus.net)
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Re: news.plus.net asking for authentication

seems to be OK here.
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Re: news.plus.net asking for authentication

What gw are you on?
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Re: news.plus.net asking for authentication

ag1 like you are now Smiley
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Re: news.plus.net asking for authentication

Getting the same today on gw4 again.
switched to ag-1 and fine, so def. a problem on gw4
same problem on ag-3 and ag-4 (switched because ag-1 was slow <1.5Mb when it should be >4Mb)
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Re: news.plus.net asking for authentication

Odd that this should be happening as we've not made any recent changes. I've just got this though.
C:\Users\bpullen>tracert mail.plus.net
Tracing route to mail.plus.net [212.159.8.81]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    78 ms    99 ms    99 ms  home.gateway [192.168.1.254]
  2    20 ms    19 ms    19 ms  lo0.plusnet.thn-ag1.plus.net [195.166.128.101]
  3    20 ms    21 ms    26 ms  vl703.thn-gw1.plus.net [84.92.4.241]
  4    20 ms    25 ms    35 ms  ae0-102.ptn-gw01.plus.net [212.159.1.53]
  5    32 ms    31 ms    20 ms  gi0-1-31.ptc-gw1.plus.net [195.166.129.3]
  6    44 ms    37 ms    28 ms  pos1-0.pih-cr1.plus.net [195.166.129.250]
  7    28 ms    35 ms    29 ms  vlan7.pih-gw3.plus.net [212.159.0.26]
  8  112 ms    62 ms    32 ms  if25.pih-lb04.plus.net [212.159.0.18]
  9    37 ms    26 ms    27 ms  mail.plus.net [212.159.8.81]
Trace complete.

C:\Users\bpullen>telnet news.plus.net 119
200 News.GigaNews.Com
group plusnet.service.customer-feedback
480 authentication required

Having said that I've just tried again without disconnecting/reconnecting and all seems OK now.
C:\Users\bpullen>telnet news.plus.net 119
200 News.GigaNews.Com
group plusnet.service.customer-feedback
211 20405 14 20418 plusnet.service.customer-feedback

It's worth bearing in mind that you'll get an authentication prompt if you exceed the maximum number of allowed threads from the same IP (which I think is set to 4).

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Re: news.plus.net asking for authentication

I haven't changed any settings and it is VERY intermittent, changing gw's usually cures it but today it seems to be following it.
It was ok but now back to asking for a u/p.
Connections set to 4 and hasn't changed.
from newsbin
[13:49:36] Level: ERROR  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=Password: Server asked for Username and Password but, They aren't set
repeated ...
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Re: news.plus.net asking for authentication

Would be interesting to see if the problem persists if you lower the number of threads you're using to 2?

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Re: news.plus.net asking for authentication

I dropped them to 3 and it seems to be holding at the moment. Will monitor it to see if it continues.
Why had the number of threads dropped? Giganews usually offer 10 threads.
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Re: news.plus.net asking for authentication

Quote from: biker955
Why had the number of threads dropped? Giganews usually offer 10 threads.

AFAIK it hasn't. Here's an excerpt from my Newsbin logs (with the server configured to use 4 threads):
[13:17:42] Level: HIGH   SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <AnThCOoh8rrfdJPgEms@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:41] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <OC6fDJ3CotFPjN4U6cIA@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:41] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <OC6fDJ3CotFPjN4U6cIA@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:40] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <C87BKkvCcJLkSXHTmLKA@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:40] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <AnThCOoh8rrfdJPgEms@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:40] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <C87BKkvCcJLkSXHTmLKA@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:35] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <LDcgsnbWXswRWiqlEudD@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:34] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <LDcgsnbWXswRWiqlEudD@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:22] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <SgRNeriwVdsuztFosrm9@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:21] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <Ot0pc6dbKqpO09RLIgo7@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:21] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <SgRNeriwVdsuztFosrm9@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:21] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <rSn7ZdKcJOfAhHtJ7kn1@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:21] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <Ot0pc6dbKqpO09RLIgo7@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:21] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <rSn7ZdKcJOfAhHtJ7kn1@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:13] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <acGqLSOdTIoM8SlNqcb5@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:12] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <acGqLSOdTIoM8SlNqcb5@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:02] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <SHi1UQZOYFciUpfqYIC2@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:02] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <EGrZltlMh59KbM7oIjTB@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:02] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <EGrZltlMh59KbM7oIjTB@JBinUp.local>
[13:17:02] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <SHi1UQZOYFciUpfqYIC2@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:59] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <ccdvZjC6UiPnEXe0Sb44@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:59] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <ccdvZjC6UiPnEXe0Sb44@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:53] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <O5UEcUzBrEmBSo1fwhZE@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:53] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <O5UEcUzBrEmBSo1fwhZE@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:42] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <P2QGSE5RamruWKB09zH2@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:42] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <D3yRj9bJYEsINl8qP9cA@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:40] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <wDKik4Ww55lbVYPV2WVE@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:40] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <wDKik4Ww55lbVYPV2WVE@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:40] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <P2QGSE5RamruWKB09zH2@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:38] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <D3yRj9bJYEsINl8qP9cA@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:35] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <pblnUCK1oWOwxO9wtfq1@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:32] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <pblnUCK1oWOwxO9wtfq1@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:22] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <togen76QVLO4At9kt1WB@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:21] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <DU0FBToLkYg5IPSZSQ93@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:20] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <Sz6pTADSUQPrpg8XqEJ@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:20] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <Sz6pTADSUQPrpg8XqEJ@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:18] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <togen76QVLO4At9kt1WB@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:17] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <DU0FBToLkYg5IPSZSQ93@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:15] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <U0oprI30E2pZSezUUYr8@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:11] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <U0oprI30E2pZSezUUYr8@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:02] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <X9ljTBFOXyJUQRQSkb98@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:02] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <XBUFCXEiIu0D0rujS5I9@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:02] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <HzZq26WJW548sk1XdWL6@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:02] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <XBUFCXEiIu0D0rujS5I9@JBinUp.local>
[13:16:00] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <X9ljTBFOXyJUQRQSkb98@JBinUp.local>
[13:15:59] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <HzZq26WJW548sk1XdWL6@JBinUp.local>
[13:15:55] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <hqvVguYUDORk0Ft68mP1@JBinUp.local>
[13:15:55] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <hqvVguYUDORk0Ft68mP1@JBinUp.local>
[13:15:42] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <J5YZVweWDmPTbJokgxa8@JBinUp.local>
[13:15:42] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <2Mkr04XWOBjUCWlsgdoC@JBinUp.local>
[13:15:42] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <dOV8chV2vju01FFFi195@JBinUp.local>
[13:15:42] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <2Mkr04XWOBjUCWlsgdoC@JBinUp.local>
[13:15:42] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <dOV8chV2vju01FFFi195@JBinUp.local>
[13:15:42] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <J5YZVweWDmPTbJokgxa8@JBinUp.local>
[13:15:41] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=220 0 <N9qg0N1kcdABxa9rnwEt@JBinUp.local>
[13:15:41] Level: HIGH  SERVER=news.plus.net, MSG=ARTICLE <N9qg0N1kcdABxa9rnwEt@JBinUp.local>

Could it be that you have a Plusnet news account configured in another client that's open at the same time? (something like Thunderbird for example)

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HairyMcbiker
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Re: news.plus.net asking for authentication

Nope the only news client I have is newsbin. Very strange, well it is working with 3 I will leave it.