On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:47:13PM -0500, Paul B. Bertrand wrote: > I recently upgraded to a generic 2.4.8-k6 kernel from a 2.2.17 kernel > and found that I am no longer able to connect to my non-isp newsserver, > namely giganews. I am, however, still able to connect to my isp > newsserver. Initially, I thought this was a giganews or isp issue, but > when I rebooted with my old kernel, I was able to connect to my > giganews. > > Does anyone know why I wouldn't be able to connect to a newsserver > outside of my isp? I don't remember ever doing anything special in > order to do this before, especially with the kernel. > > This is the error message I receive: > > Connecting to host news-central.giganews.com > ...connection to 216.166.62.35, port 119:Connection refused > Unable to make connection. Giving up. > slrn fatal error: > Failed to initialize server. > > I also tried using port 23 but that didn't work either. Also, I am able > to ping giganews with the new kernel. > Sounds like it couold be ECN. Is it enabled in your kernel? If so, try as root: 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn' I hope that helps you. > Thanks for your help. > > Paul > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- GPG key-id: 1024D/5BE3DCFD Dmitriy CCAB 5F17 A099 9E43 1DBE 295C 9A21 2F1C 5BE3 DCFD Adobe put Dmitry in jail for the crime against society of revealing that they were selling ROT-13 as "encryption." He is rotting in US prison as a political prisoner for speaking out. Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org
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