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**VanguardLH[_2_]**

wrote:

Suddenly, since 2 days, I am unable to send or receive to Cox's news
servers.

I am a Cox hi speed Internet subscriber and have several subscribed
newsgroups on news.east.cox.net. Without my having changed anything on my
side I am suddenly unable to contact any of them. Cox "support" insists
there are no reported problems on their news servers.

- Internet access works fine.
- Email to and back from my cox mailbox works fine.
- Other newsgroups (like this one) work fine.

The error message is
"Outlook Express could not post your message.
Account: 'news.east.cox.net'. Server: 'news.east.cox.net'. Protocol: NNTP,
server
Response:
'502 Maximum number of connections reached. (newsfe 12.iad) (Tomado
v1.2.6.556-2). Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No. Server error: 502, Error Number
0x800CCCAO"

1) Any suggestions?
2) Any free news servers I can use in the meanwhile?

Thanks.

Jeff

Too many connections probably means they cannot handle as many customers
as are currently connecting to them (and some are probably downloading
entire binary groups which can take a very long time so they remain
continously connected). Looks like your NSP (newsgroups service
provider) needs to rethink their quotas, like how long a user is allowed
to keep a session open.

A traceroute to news.east.cox.net shows it goes through Highwinds which
is a Usenet service provider to many 3rd-level NSPs, like Cox, EasyNews,
Verizon, UsenetServer, TeraNews, newshosting.com, and many others. Cox
is outsourcing their NNTP service from Highwinds so the problem may not
be at a Cox host and instead something at Highwinds over which Cox has
no control (other than contracting with a different NSP).