> > >> Doing the same on port 119 of the local nntpcached-running machine gives me: > >> 215 > >> (a single full stop all alone) > >> > >> > >> I'm now truly clueless, and haven't an idea as to where to go from here. > >> > >> Can anybody help? > > > >What does syslog have to say? > > Here's the what my debug log has recorded: > > Nov 11 21:05:11 wawserver nntpcached[1391]: sockets.c:378: -> 200 > wawserver.waw.be NNTPcache server V1.0.1 Nov 11 1996 ready (posting ok). [...] What about before this point, when nntpcache-updated was out go-getting stuff ;)