Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth

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Subject	Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth
Date	Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:10:31 -0800
From	Edna Hosner <edna@invalid.invalid>
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> I took another look, to see what other issues may be occurring.  I 
> believe I've identified your problem.
> 
> $ nmap news.astroweb.com -p 119,563
> 
> Starting Nmap 6.47 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2015-02-23 21:51 CST
> Nmap scan report for news.astroweb.com (184.168.221.104)
> Host is up (0.087s latency).
> rDNS record for 184.168.221.104: ip-184-168-221-104.ip.secureserver.net
> PORT    STATE  SERVICE
> 119/tcp closed nntp
> 563/tcp closed snews
> 
> Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 11.41 seconds
> 
> The host is 'up', but the nntp and snews ports are closed.  It may be 
> time to find yourself a different Usenet provider.


i don't understand a word of the above

it's working for the time being... thanks to "Allow Bad Certificates"

is there anything i need to do?

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can't connect to astraweb on thoth edna hosner <edna.hosner@gmail.com> - 2015-02-23 10:39 -0800
  Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth edna hosner <edna.hosner@gmail.com> - 2015-02-23 10:50 -0800
  Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-23 20:55 +0000
    Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth edna hosner <edna.hosner@gmail.com> - 2015-02-23 13:05 -0800
      Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-02-23 16:36 -0500
        Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth edna hosner <edna.hosner@gmail.com> - 2015-02-23 14:12 -0800
          Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-02-23 18:20 -0500
      Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-23 21:54 +0000
        Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth edna hosner <edna.hosner@gmail.com> - 2015-02-23 16:16 -0800
          Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-02-23 16:28 -0800
          Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2015-02-23 19:50 -0600
            Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth heron stone <heron@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-23 21:08 -0800
              Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-02-24 08:31 -0500
                Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2usenet2014.subsume.com> - 2015-02-24 16:02 +0000
    Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-02-23 20:29 -0500
  Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2015-02-23 21:57 -0600
    Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth Edna Hosner <edna@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-23 21:10 -0800
    Re: can't connect to astraweb on thoth Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2015-02-24 12:14 +0000

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