Is this direct connection to news.db.com definitely working from the same machine (IP address)? You are getting connection refused messages, could it be that you can only have one active connection at a time? I also suggest removing the cache. I may be wrong, but I've had similar problems and that seemed to always fix them. On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > 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 > > 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 :) .
