Adam Shand said once: > It works fine on an almost exact same config on my linux box. Works fine on my machine at home. Damn it. Although it did not at the beginning... > >Here is the list of servers I'm trying to set up for (as listed in > >servers-file): > The only thing I can think of that is differnt is that we only have three > feeds and that yours are listed in differnt orders. You could try making > sure that the order that the news hosts and the groups to retrieve from > those hosts are listed in the same order. Tried. > >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 What can I put instead of DEFAULT? Their IP address? Or mine? Not obvious at all, IMHO. > I do this with nntpcache (from the exact same site) and it works fine. > What is your default IP# that you are identifing your self as? Machine does indeed have two -- internal and external... > >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 have had problems adding and removed news hosts without deleting the > cache. Try setting it up the way you want, deleteing the cache and then > restarting it. Khmmm... Will try. Would not you expect a warning in this case from the software that logs 4 lines for failing connection?.. > Help seems sporadic from this list. Sometimes it's great mostly it's > useless :-( Will see... Still, little news-server seems to be a better alternative. I expected the proxy to be easy to set-up/maintain. It is not. And the server is better in that it does allows off-line Usenet reading for the users (when the LAN is not connected to the world). Thanks! -mi
