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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 |
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cannot connect to Cox news server
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 |
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cannot connect to Cox news server
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 |
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cannot connect to Cox news server
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 |
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cannot connect to Cox news server
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 |
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cannot connect to Cox news server
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 --- |
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cannot connect to Cox news server
"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. |
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cannot connect to Cox news server
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 |
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cannot connect to Cox news server
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 --- |
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cannot connect to Cox news server
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 |
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