cannot connect to Cox news server

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

Try setting up a new Identity and then add the cox server and see if that
works in the different identity.

steve

wrote in message
...
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

Same thing with new identity. Cannot even download the newsgroup list.

Jeff

Steve Cochran wrote:
Try setting up a new Identity and then add the cox server and see if
that works in the different identity.

steve

wrote in message
...
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

Any free news servers?

Jeff

Steve Cochran wrote:
Try setting up a new Identity and then add the cox server and see if
that works in the different identity.

steve

wrote in message
...
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

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:46:18 -0400, wrote:

Any free news servers?

Sign up at http://www.motzarella.org

They will mail you a password for access to their news service at
'news.motzarella.org'. No binaries, though.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

wrote in message ...
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?


Try a different news reader. OE doesn't issue an NNTP Quit command
and creates more connections than it really needs to so the server's
message may be quite valid, depending on what you are doing and
what the server's idle timeout policy and connection limit is.

What you could try is waiting a few minutes and retesting
with a telnet session to simulate that logon. E.g. in a cmd window
enter:

telnet
then
o news.east.cox.net 119

Wait for the prompt from the server. Then, since login seems
to be required:

AUTHINFO USER {your user name}

and

AUTHINFO PASS {your user name's password}

If you get logged in without the error message then
you should terminate that simulation with

QUIT

You should really terminate the session that way in any case
but I suspect your session would be terminated after the error message.


You could also activate troubleshooting logging for news but OE doesn't
record all its interactions with the server there. It's best to do a full TCP
packet trace and format the NNTP traffic. E.g. I use netcap for the
capture and Ethereal (aka WireShark) for the formatting.

Otherwise ask the server operator how long the idle timeout is
and after you get the message, wait at least that long before
retrying with OE.


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


For which newsgroups? All the microsoft newsgroups are available
on a free news server: msnews.microsoft.com which does not
require authentication.



Thanks.

Jeff



Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---

"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
...

wrote in message
...
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?


Try a different news reader.

I did. I tried 2 others and just like OE they could not connect to or
download the list of newsgroups on news.east.cox.net.

snip

with a telnet session to simulate that logon. E.g. in a cmd window
enter:

It could not connect with telnet either.

I found a free news server (202.177.16.121/) and it gets me the newsgroups I
had with Cox. Cox's news servers just stopped working for me since Monday.

Does the behavior persist at all hours (e.g., 4:00 AM; 10:00 AM; 1:00 PM)?

Jeff wrote:
Same thing with new identity. Cannot even download the newsgroup list.

Try setting up a new Identity and then add the cox server and see if
that works in the different identity.

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

wrote in message ...
"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
...

with a telnet session to simulate that logon. E.g. in a cmd window
enter:

It could not connect with telnet either.


Be more specific. You couldn't log on or you couldn't get the prompt?
E.g. do you get this far:

telnet subcommand="Microsoft Telnet o news.east.cox.net 119"
200 (newsfe15.iad) -- Welcome (newsfe15.iad) (Tornado v1.2.6.556-2)
HELP
480 Authentication Required
QUIT
205 GoodBye
/telnet



I found a free news server (202.177.16.121/) and it gets me the newsgroups I
had with Cox. Cox's news servers just stopped working for me since Monday.


Ok. That sounds like something you could ask your ISP about for sure.
It could also be a symptom of a misconfigured firewall but they may be
able to help you diagnose that case too.


Good luck

Robert
---

Yes, it is always present. Searching on Google groups, it seems this is a
problem that has afflicted Cox in the past too and took forever to fix.

Now that I found a free news server that gives me my newsgroups I gave up on
Cox's news servers and am just using the free one.

Jeff


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
Does the behavior persist at all hours (e.g., 4:00 AM; 10:00 AM; 1:00 PM)?
Jeff wrote:
Same thing with new identity. Cannot even download the newsgroup list.

Try setting up a new Identity and then add the cox server and see if
that works in the different identity.

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