Usenet Explorer

Hi Alex, thank's for this great newsreader, I've been using newspro for over 3 years now and I still think it's one of the best newsreaders around


Now here's my problem:
Lately I'm getting a lot of [gethostbyname] errors
this error doesn't stay with 1 server but changes between servers
one day it's on news.giganews.com the next it can be on
news-europe.giganews.com or on news.astraweb.com

the only thing I can do is uncheck the headers I'm downloading
and then recheck them again, that mostly solves the problem

can there be anything I'm doing wrong ?

Thanks,

Ton

it might be your firewall or dns server (the latter if you see the same with internet explorer as well).

as to the firewall - try to remove/readd newspro in its access definitions.

if the error happens on the random basis - you may try to make it recoverable, just add the error number in the 'recoverable' error boolean wildmat in properties->general.

thanks for your fast response

I'm not using a software firewall (win98) this system is behind an
Hardware NAT-Router (Belkin type F5D7230-4 firmware 3.00.08 wifi lan router) I'm only using this machine for usenet downloading on a remote controled basis, maybe I need to map some ports to this machine, and if that's not working I'll try to make it recoverable

ok I tried port mapping (didn't work) logical that's only for incomming ports

I noticed, when I put in an IP adress for those servers the problem is gone
so it looks like some kind of DNS problem I just don't know what to do about it (it also occurs when I try to get new headers) and then making recoverable won't work with that.

making recoverable will work, it gives the error number 20002 (it is not a string error so you need to put the number and not a message text pattern).

so you just add it in the recoverable errors:

.....|20002

maybe it is router, try to connect directly and see.