From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 19:22:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA03939 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 19:22:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03878 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 19:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hpautobo.aus.hp.com by hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA191889729; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 19:22:11 -0700 Message-Id: <199609190222.AA191889729@hp.com> Received: by hpautobo.aus.hp.com (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA220909729; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:22:09 +1000 From: M C Wong Subject: Re: odd problem with 2.1R NNTP access To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com Date: Thu, 19 Sep 96 12:22:08 EST Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609182143.RAA28621@bbs.mpcs.com>; from "Howard Goldstein" at Sep 18, 96 5:43 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk RFC1373 is about DUAs, how does that affect NNTP ? Or is it a side effect of RFC1373 implementation into 2.1R ? > In article <199609190026.AAA01297@lespoir.apana.org.au>, you wrote: > : Hi, > : I have been using FreeBSD 2.1R with ijppp for a while now. > : The problem I have is when accessing a remote NNTP server at my > : ISP site. I always get connection timeout for some reason using > : either tin or news reader from Netscape. > : > : Another box running Win95 running Netscape newsreader, however, > : can access the same remote NNTP server WITHOUT problem at all. > : Has anyone run into the same problem as me ? > Have you tried turining rfc1373 off before trying to access the remote > system? > sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1373=0 > Howie > -- > Howard Goldstein