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[Christian]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-03-01, Christian <ckkart at hoc.net> wrote:
> 
>> I found out that gmane does not like my ISP. SSH tunneling to
>> some other host works.
> 
> That's very odd.  When you telnet to the NNTP port on
> news.gmane.org, you get a message like this?
> 
>    $ telnet news.gmane.org 119
>    Trying 80.91.229.5...
>    Connected to news.gmane.org.
>    Escape character is '^]'.
>    200 news.gmane.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1 ready (posting ok).
> 
> And you can do commands like this?
> 
>    help
>    [... list of NNTP commands ...]   

works

>    list active
>    [... long list of newsgroups ...]   

hangs forever. Does not output anything.

Christian