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  • Did anyone else's Usenet access via Eternal September go down for several hours today (27 June)?

    From NY@me@privacy.net to uk.telecom.broadband on Sat Jun 27 22:00:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

    Did anyone else's Usenet access via Eternal September go down for
    several hours today (27 June)?

    Using Thunderbird, I got a message about not being able to contact news.eternal-september.org, and tracing with Wireshark, this text was
    visible in a response from ES, as opposed to be a message generated
    locally in Thunderbird.

    I ask because Down Detector etc did not list any reported problems for
    today.

    It seemed to have come back just before I tried Usenet access via
    Windows Live Mail on another PC: it worked on that and when I tried on
    TB it was back.
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  • From snipeco.2@snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) to uk.telecom.broadband on Sat Jun 27 23:00:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

    NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:

    Did anyone else's Usenet access via Eternal September go down for
    several hours today (27 June)?
    [...]

    Yes. The Admin had to reconfigure after a user pointed out a problem
    in the Cancel-Lock works.
    --
    ^-^. Sn!pe, bird-brain. All that was old is new again.

    My pet rock Gordon just is.
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  • From NY@me@privacy.net to uk.telecom.broadband on Sun Jun 28 06:01:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

    On 27/06/2026 23:00, Sn!pe wrote:
    NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:

    Did anyone else's Usenet access via Eternal September go down for
    several hours today (27 June)?
    [...]

    Yes. The Admin had to reconfigure after a user pointed out a problem
    in the Cancel-Lock works.

    Fair enough. Strange that the status on Downdetector etc and on ES's own
    web site didn't mention this loss of service. If it had, I wouldn't have wondered whether it was my PC that was at fault.

    I suppose people couldn't post fault reports or "has it gone down?" in newsgroups such as this one because they need working newgroup access in
    order to post the question... I was in that position.
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to uk.telecom.broadband on Sun Jun 28 09:58:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

    NY wrote:

    Did anyone else's Usenet access via Eternal September go down for several hours today (27 June)?

    E-S isn't my main usenet server (for now that's NIN) but I did notice it refusing connections for a while ...

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  • From Apd@not@all.invalid to uk.telecom.broadband on Sun Jun 28 10:03:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

    NY wrote:
    Strange that the status on Downdetector etc and on ES's own
    web site didn't mention this loss of service.

    Isn't Downdetector for websites so won't apply to NNTP? The E-S site
    showed the problem here:
    <https://eternal-september.org/serverstatus.php>

    Several of the status buttons were yellow and showed a socket error when hovered over with the mouse. "All servers Log-in" actually stated there
    was a problem.
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to uk.telecom.broadband on Sun Jun 28 10:42:33 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.telecom.broadband

    Apd wrote:

    Isn't Downdetector for websites so won't apply to NNTP?

    Primarily that's correct, I think it "draws implications" by monitoring
    social networks for complaints too ...


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