On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, James Satterfield wrote: (don't know about the SOCKS stuff) > After letting it run for a few minutes, a telnet localhost 119 says that > 503 NNTPCache-2.4.0b2 initial server rebuild in progress (1620 groups > complete, at least 1380 groups to go. Please try again later. > Connection closed by foreign host. > > It never gets beyond 1620 groups. The connection to the socks proxy > eventually dies and nothing happens. Does your upstream have more than ~1620 groups? Try tuning the 'minActive' value in your nntpcache config file to be ~1600. Peter. -- Until I loved, life had no beauty; I did not know I lived until I had loved. (Theodor Korner)