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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 96 12:22:08 EST
From:      M C Wong <mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com>
To:        hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: odd problem with 2.1R NNTP access
Message-ID:  <199609190222.AA191889729@hp.com>
In-Reply-To: <199609182143.RAA28621@bbs.mpcs.com>; from "Howard Goldstein" at Sep 18, 96 5:43 pm

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RFC1373 is about DUAs, how does that affect NNTP ?
Or is it a side effect of RFC1373 implementation into 2.1R ?

> In article <199609190026.AAA01297@lespoir.apana.org.au>, you wrote:
>  : Hi,
>  :     I have been using FreeBSD 2.1R with ijppp for a while now.
>  : The problem I have is when accessing a remote NNTP server at my
>  : ISP site. I always get connection timeout for some reason using
>  : either tin or news reader from Netscape.
>  : 
>  :     Another box running Win95 running Netscape newsreader, however,
>  : can access the same remote NNTP server WITHOUT problem at all.
>  : Has anyone run into the same problem as me ?

> Have you tried turining rfc1373 off before trying to access the remote
> system?

> sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1373=0

> Howie

> -- 
> Howard Goldstein   <hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com>



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