David E. Ross wrote:
On 7/15/2013 2:42 AM, Daniel wrote:
Lee wrote:
On 7/14/13, Daniel <d...@albury.nospam.net.au> wrote:
I use Teranews.com for my Usenet account, and have two accounts for it,
free.teranews.com has my forty-odd general usenet groups, and
69.16.185.252 (the equivalent of free.teranews.com)
Maybe they changed the server IP addresses. See what you get with an
nslookup free.teranews.com.
$ nslookup free.teranews.com.
Non-authoritative answer:
Server: Broadband_Router.home
Address: 192.168.1.1
Name: news.iad.highwinds-media.com
Addresses: 69.16.179.22
69.16.179.23
Aliases: free.teranews.com
news.geo.highwinds-media.com
Regards,
Lee
... is for my dozen or
so computer usage groups, however.....
For the past few days, this second account has been timing out, so I've
got no access to these groups.
The first account works, but (as you're probably aware) there's very
little activity on any of the general groups, some but not much!
I cannot recall anything I've done which might have broken this second
account!
Has anybody got any suggestions as to how I can get the account
responding correctly?? Should I remove the account entries from the
password manager and hope I get asked to enter them, again?? Any other
suggestions??
TIA
--
Daniel
Lee, thanks for the response, but note for the future ... If someone
post to a group/list, then chances are they will be checking the
group/list for any responses, so there is no need for you to post to
their email account as well!! No biggie!!
I wouldn't expect Teranews to go changing their server IP address
without telling people it's going to happen, but it seems something has
changed, so I might have to change the address, as you suggest.
It is rarely a good idea to use an IP address in place of a domain name.
If a server has to be taken out of service for maintenance or repair,
its replacement will have a different IP address. That replacement,
however, might only be temporary, which means you will have to keep
changing the IP address to which you refer.
Furthermore, where servers are mirrored (several identical servers, all
with the same domain name), a particular server -- with its unique IP
address -- might be allowed to die without replacement.
Thanks for that David.
Up above, I stated that I had been using 69.16.185.252, whereas Lee came
up with 69.16.179.22/69.16.179.23, so you may well be right with your
"die without replacement" suggestion.
Last night, I tried setting up (or, rather, modified the existing
account) to the 69.16.179.22 address, and in trying to update the
account I've exceeded my monthly limit so am now barred!! As the "new"
server has yet to give me a full listing of the new or old messages in
the (I said "a dozen or so" in error) 20 newsgroups, I guess I'll have
to find something else to do with my time!!
Or try 69.16.185.252 again!! ;-)
--
Daniel
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