trouble with pan

Wed May 23 01:21:19 BST 2007

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 21:47:17 Andrew Shugg wrote:
> James Takac said:
> > Thought I'd try pan as I haven't been on usenet for a while now.
> > Ususally I have no probs configuring a news reader but for pan that
> > seems to have changed. And yes, I've googled around, tried reading the
> > documentaion, etc.  What's happening is that no matter what nntp
> > server I try (even one from my isp), pan tells me there is no
> > connection. I've tried both with and without firewall running so I
> > think I've ruled that out. Well, just figured out another possibility,
> > e.g. router blocking it. So begs the q, as I have 3 pc's on that
> > router, how can I determine this ones ip address? Then if setting the
> > router port forwarding fails I'll have to ask further on pan
>
> Being a client, SURELY it won't need a port mapping back to itself on
> your router ...
>
> Is pan trying to connect 'securely' with SSL perhaps?
>
> If you have pan running and trying to connect to a news server, and you
> open a Terminal window and run 'netstat --inet' or 'sudo lsof -i' can
> you see any indication that pan has established a connection to the
> server?
>
> The main users list at ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com could be more help.
>
> Andrew.
>
> --
> Andrew Shugg <andrew at neep.com.au>                   http://www.neep.com.au/
>
> "Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
> "Is there?  Well I'd like to meet him.  I could do with a good laugh."

That's what I thought as well, just wanted to rule out all possibilties as it 
were. Didn't think the router was the prob but thought I'd check it still. 
Can't see anywhere in pan that mentions ssl inn the settings. It just says no 
connection at the bottom left of the window. Tried your suggestions and it 
came back with

p3nn at p3nn-laptop:~$ netstat --inet
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State      
tcp        1      0 192.168.1.7:53466       edevelop.org:www        CLOSE_WAIT 
tcp        1      0 192.168.1.7:57838       w-02.th.seeweb.it:www   CLOSE_WAIT 
tcp        1      0 192.168.1.7:42746       wine.budgetdedicate:www CLOSE_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.7:42902       iglue-sg.sgp.hp.com:www 
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.7:42898       iglue-sg.sgp.hp.com:www 
ESTABLISHED
tcp        1      0 192.168.1.7:59956       prat.canonical.com:www  CLOSE_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.7:56855       202.177.214.94:www      
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192.168.1.7:56856       202.177.214.94:www      
ESTABLISHED
tcp        1      0 192.168.1.7:59443       rockhopper.ubuntu.c:www CLOSE_WAIT 
tcp        1      0 192.168.1.7:45053       host.theberkshire.c:www CLOSE_WAIT 
tcp        1      0 192.168.1.7:54315       srv122.hosteur.com:www  CLOSE_WAIT 
p3nn at p3nn-laptop:~$ sudo lsof -i
Password:
COMMAND    PID   USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
portmap   4242 daemon    3u  IPv4  14237       UDP *:sunrpc 
portmap   4242 daemon    4u  IPv4  14238       TCP *:sunrpc (LISTEN)
avahi-dae 4911  avahi   13u  IPv4  16354       UDP *:mdns 
avahi-dae 4911  avahi   14u  IPv4  16355       UDP *:32768 
dhclient  4987   dhcp    6u  IPv4  16798       UDP *:bootpc 
cupsd     5058 cupsys    2u  IPv4  16811       TCP localhost:ipp (LISTEN)
hpiod     5082   root    0u  IPv4  16842       TCP localhost:2208 (LISTEN)
python    5085  hplip    4u  IPv4  16853       TCP localhost:2207 (LISTEN)
rpc.mount 5512   root    6u  IPv4  17615       UDP *:600 
rpc.mount 5512   root    7u  IPv4  17618       TCP *:603 (LISTEN)
dhclient3 5553   dhcp    4u  IPv4  13906       UDP *:bootpc 
rpc.statd 5651  statd    3u  IPv4  17859       UDP *:32772 
rpc.statd 5651  statd    6u  IPv4  17848       UDP *:739 
rpc.statd 5651  statd    7u  IPv4  17862       TCP *:48161 (LISTEN)
cfsd      5719   root    3u  IPv4  18046       UDP localhost:3049 
firefox-b 6329   p3nn   72u  IPv4  78498       TCP 
192.168.1.7:42902->sgnglue1.sgp.hp.com:www (ESTABLISHED)
firefox-b 6329   p3nn   77u  IPv4  78395       TCP 
192.168.1.7:42898->sgnglue1.sgp.hp.com:www (ESTABLISHED)
http      6471   root    3u  IPv4  25361       TCP 
192.168.1.7:57838->w-02.th.seeweb.it:www (CLOSE_WAIT)
http      6472   root    3u  IPv4  24658       TCP 
192.168.1.7:53466->edevelop.org:www (CLOSE_WAIT)
http      6473   root    3u  IPv4  24648       TCP 
192.168.1.7:54315->srv122.hosteur.com:www (CLOSE_WAIT)
http      6474   root    3u  IPv4  24653       TCP 
192.168.1.7:59443->rockhopper.ubuntu.com:www (CLOSE_WAIT)
http      6475   root    3u  IPv4  24647       TCP 
192.168.1.7:45053->host.theberkshire.com:www (CLOSE_WAIT)
http      6476   root    3u  IPv4  24645       TCP 
192.168.1.7:42746->wine.budgetdedicated.com:www (CLOSE_WAIT)
http      6477   root    3u  IPv4  26052       TCP 
192.168.1.7:59956->prat.canonical.com:www (CLOSE_WAIT)

I'm trying to connect to

news://textnews.news.cambrium.nl/ on port 119 for now. Every server I've tried 
is the same so far.

Tried your other suggestion as well, i.e nc news.server.address nntp

first server timed out and came back as unknown host. So I'll bet the host is 
a no go. So I tried the same with my isp's server and came back with

502 You have no permission to talk, (reverse dns disabled, see nodns in 
dnews.conf) {},122.148.190.151 Goodbye

So I'm guessing I need to enable reverse dns?

James