Hello! I'm trying to set up the latest (?) 1.0.6 on my client's LAN for evaluation. We understand, the program is not free and may be willing to pay for it. However, I can not make it to work properly, and will blame it on software unless someone (hopefully, the developers, who would receive my client's money) explains to me what I did wrong. Here is the list of servers I'm trying to set up for (as listed in servers-file): -------------------------------------------------------------- msnews.microsoft.com. DEFAULT 10m 1d 2d 15m 60d 60d news.db.com. DEFAULT 10m 1d 2d 15m 60d 60d news.intel.com. DEFAULT 10m 1d 2d 15m 60d 60d news.ziplink.net DEFAULT 10m 1d 2d 15m 60d 60d %BeginGroups * news.ziplink.net. glbs.* news.db.com. microsoft.* msnews.microsoft.com. Intel.* news.intel.com. -------------------------------------------------------------- The best result I can achieve, is when ziplink.net and db.com are commented out. Then I can see a union of what intel and microsoft offer in the clients. If db.com is not commented out, the following shows up in the log: Apr 28 21:45:17 xxx nntpcached-update[4362]: sockets.c:347:Connection refused: could not connect to news.db.com. as DEFAULT Apr 28 21:45:17 xxx nntpcached-update[4362]: sockets.c:72:Connection refused: couldn't connect to news.db.com. as DEFAULT Apr 28 21:45:17 xxx nntpcached-update[4362]: list.c:438:Connection refused: news.db.com. dropped connection during rebuild of active Apr 28 21:45:21 xxx nntpcached-update[4362]: sockets.c:347:Connection refused: could not connect to news.db.com. as DEFAULT Apr 28 21:45:21 xxx nntpcached-update[4362]: sockets.c:72:Connection refused: couldn't connect to news.db.com. as DEFAULT Apr 28 21:45:21 xxx nntpcached-update[4362]: list.c:438:Connection refused: news.db.com. dropped connection during rebuild of active.times Apr 28 21:45:25 xxx nntpcached-update[4362]: sockets.c:347:Connection refused: could not connect to news.db.com. as DEFAULT Apr 28 21:45:25 xxx nntpcached-update[4362]: sockets.c:72:Connection refused: couldn't connect to news.db.com. as DEFAULT Apr 28 21:45:25 xxx nntpcached-update[4362]: list.c:438:Connection refused: news.db.com. dropped connection during rebuild of newsgroups Do not know, what's wrong -- direct connection to news.db.com works just fine with knews. But if news.ziplink.net (the news-server of the ISP, source of *-newsgroups) is present, the daemon spends quite some time merging active, active.times and newsgroups, only to later pretend _there are no news-groups available_. None. Not even those from intel and microsoft (sorry for my client's poor taste :) . I already asked the similar question before, and received ONE response asking to share whatever the help I've got. It is my understading, that the developers _want_ this to work, otherwise, I'll just set-up innd (or a similar thing). I picked nntpcache for the seeming ease of setting and administering. Seems like a mistake. :( Thanks for your time, -mi P.S. The proxy machine runs FreeBSD-2.2.1 if it matters.
