I recently upgraded to a generic 2.4.8-k6 kernel from a 2.2.17 kernel and found that I am no longer able to connect to my non-isp newsserver, namely giganews. I am, however, still able to connect to my isp newsserver. Initially, I thought this was a giganews or isp issue, but when I rebooted with my old kernel, I was able to connect to my giganews.
Does anyone know why I wouldn't be able to connect to a newsserver outside of my isp? I don't remember ever doing anything special in order to do this before, especially with the kernel. This is the error message I receive: Connecting to host news-central.giganews.com ...connection to 216.166.62.35, port 119:Connection refused Unable to make connection. Giving up. slrn fatal error: Failed to initialize server. I also tried using port 23 but that didn't work either. Also, I am able to ping giganews with the new kernel. Thanks for your help. Paul
