Re: Unable to connect to newsgroups

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 03/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:48:39 -0700

Lan,
Can you ping news.microsoft.com or 207.46.248.16 ? Just curios as it seems
they may have disabled the echo. I can telnet to either name or IP address
though. 

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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
| If you ping msnews.microsoft.com, do you get an IP address returned?
| Can you telnet to msnews.microsoft.com on port 119?
| Is port 119 closed outbound on your firewall/router?

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