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#1

D

dmot

I've been using XanaNews for a while and I just noticed that I can't grab new posts anymore. I get a socket error connection refused message. I was able to connect last week, tried today and I can't connect. I haven't changed anything on my end, does anyone else have the same issue? I tried from a second location with a second PC running the same news program so I'm not sure how I can be having the same issue on two different installs on two different WAN IPs.

Thanks.


#2

D

dmot

@PHolder

You are on newsgroups, right? Is everything working for you?


#3

P

PHolder

@dmot No, something's been broken since I tried to check the messages this morning, and remains broken as of 5 minutes ago.


#4

R

RayG

Agreed broken in the UK as well: Connection Refused


#5

P

PHolder

FYI it's back now, and Steve posted this:


From: "Steve Gibson" <news008_@_grc.com>
Subject: News Server Outage
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:04:21 -0800
Message-ID: <vmbl7f$1tl$1@GRC>
Lines: 27

Gang,

Just a note about this morning's news server outage. A thanks to
Paul Babiak for bringing this to my attention with an email that
came in here at 3:56am. I didn't see it until the morning, and I
was unable to the Level 3 data center until an hour ago.

The trouble MAY have been a flaky power supply. I haven't yet
plowed into logs, etc. since I wanted to get this posted first.
But when I arrived at Level 3, our news server was powered down
with a yellow "Alarm State" light glowing. So it appears that
the machine spontaneously powered itself down.

Examination of one of the two "redundant" power supplies
revealed that its power indicator LED had much reduced
intensity. I don't know whether that's significant, but when
I replaced the power supply with a spare I kept on hand, the
replacment's power supply's LED was full strength. So let's hope
that this was the problem (which does loosely fit the symptoms)
since it would be much more convenient to keep this server in
service as long as possible.

(And, no, the "redundancy failure" here does not go unnoticed!)


#6

S

surya

Dear Steve, I am in India on 17 Jan 25 at 8:45 in the evening. The newsgroup is not working. Connection is being refused and I searched for the problem and found this thread and so I am posting . News cannot be downloaded. Is there a Problem or a new authentication method that was changed recently.
--
Regards, Surya, VIsakhapatnam, India

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#7

R

RayG

Agreed, GRC down again in UK


#8

D

dmot

@Steve

I'm also getting a socket error today.

10:03am CST


#9

P

PHolder

I presume the problem was not the power supply as suspected. I'm sure it will be back soon.


#10

R

Red.Rover

Fri 17 Jan 2025 11:38:00 AM CST
Trying 4.79.142.203...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

Still down


#11

D

DanR

Same here. I get an occasional, connect for 1 post. Then Unable to connect.

I presume @Steve is on it.


#12

A

AlanD

It was back by about 21:30 GMT yesterday. Server failure again. See Steve's post in GRC.News


#13

S

surya

AlanD said:
It was back by about 21:30 GMT yesterday. Server failure again. See Steve's post in GRC.News
Click to expand...
Thank you it is working now.


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