Re: Eternal September problems

In message <2e5f79ef58.harriet@...>
          Harriet Bazley <lists@...> wrote:

> On 15 Jan 2021 as I do recall,
>          Chris Johnson  wrote:
> 
> > In article <f24a6cef58.harriet@...>,
> >    Harriet Bazley <lists@...> wrote:
> > > I can't download any news because I keep getting "Connection rfused" or
> > > "Connection timed out" errors from (by a process of elimination) the
> > > Eternal September news server - is there a known issue with it
> > > currently? I couldn't find any mention of anything online.
> > 
> > There is a thread over on the ROOL forum. It looks like Eternal September
> > have changed something and NewsHound no longer supports the new change.
> > 
> Found it (by finding the forum and then doing an internal search: Google
> still doesn't throw up anything relevant for ROOL/NewsHound)
> 
> https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/11/topics/16111
> 
> Switching to port 119 sounds like a temporary solution which will at least
> have some hopes of notifying me when the issue is fixed! Otherwise I should
> think it's likely to have a pretty heavy effect on the comp.sys.acorn.*
> groups....
> 
> 
> Edit: yes, port 119 will allow download.

I think I'm close to having a solution to offer.  I've been able to post
some test postings to alt.test.  I need to add a bit of code to prevent
infinite retries in the case that authentication fails, then I need to
test some more.

On that subject: I'd be grateful of offers from others to test too, from
users of eternal-september and other news servers.  I don't want to find
that my fixes make eternal-september work but break operation on other
servers!

David

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