Re: Is news running slow (or is it just NTL)?

In message of 24 Oct, James Pea*** <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> druck wrote:
>
> > On 24 Oct 2005 Grahame Parish <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I don't seem to have had any news messages since about 22:40 on 22nd
> > > October. Is this a general problem or an NTL specific one? I'm
> > > getting emails (but not from Yahoo groups) and RSS items from
> > > BBC/Drobe/Iconbar.
> >
> > What does NTLs webstite say about the news server status?
> > What does !NewsHounds log say is happening when it tries to download?
> > Is there any point in my posting this, if you cant get news? :-)
>
> I've had loads of problems with NTL (cable) over the last week, pretty
> much everything was broken at some point. It seems to have sorted itself
> out now though I needed to restart my router and Iyonix to get the news
> server DNS lookup working; oddly other DNS lookups seemed to be OK.
>
> The problems I had didn't cause any visible error from newshound, though
> various DNS and host unreachable errors were in the log.

Many afternoons I get error messages from newshound when it can't
connect to the server. In my case this is a BT line though the
contract is with OneTel, but my view is that it is some sort of fault
before this house. After an hour or so, the errors cease. Occasionally
I have to power down the router to get things going again.

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