Reaching public NNTP servers through SBS 2003 Std.

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I've setup SBS2003 Std (upgrading from Server 2000 Pro) with NNTP services
and firewall enabled and connecting to the Internet via a hardware router
and firewall.

I am not able to connect to my ISP's public news groups, not from the server
or any other workstation in the network (with the exception of
msnews.microsoft.com).

When I ping the news servers, they respond. When trying to reach the servers
through telnet, OE, or my std news reader, no success. I can however connect
to the local NNTP service using all of the above methods.

However, when I bypass the SBS2003 and go directly into the router,
everything works fine.

As I can reach msnews... and not my ISP's news servers through SBS2003 it
appears that there my be inconsistencies between some of the news servers,
that I might be able to fix with a setting (both the reverse NNTP and
NNTP/SSL port are open). Any clues....

All other Internet traffic appears to be normal.

I initially had the same problem with Server 2000, and resolved the issue by
stopping the local NNTP virtual server. This however does nothing for
SBS2003.

Thanks for any replies.
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