Re: news servers and port 119
You're right, the problem is ECN. It is set to enabled in the pre-compiled kernel
packages. Thanks for your help.
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:05:24PM -0700 or thereabouts, Dmitriy wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
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