On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:47:13PM -0500, Paul B. Bertrand wrote: > 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. > Sounds like it couold be ECN. Is it enabled in your kernel?
If so, try as root:
'echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn'
I hope that helps you.
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Paul
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