Re: Can ping server, but not connect to it

[Alasdair]

Thanks again!  The trouble seems to be with my DNS system - if I contact the
newsserver with its numeric address, then gnus seems to work fine.

-Alasdair

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:26:51 +1100, Alasdair wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for your reply.  I don't think it's a permission problem, as I can
>> connect quite nicely using knode (which is what I'm using at the moment.
>> But knode's a bit slow and inefficient).  It seems to be a problem
>> somehow with connecting from within emacs.
> 
> Perhaps you could run "sudo ngrep -Wbyline port 119" while connecting
> with knode and one of the others, and see if you can spot the
> difference?
> 
> 
>   Best regards,
>