Topic: How Do I open Port 119 for to connect to a News server

[Kyle Reed]

Hi there

I am having a hard time connecting through the e-smith gw to the news servers, When directly connected to the internet from my pc it works fine. Is port 119 closed by default?

Kind Regards

[brianr]

Unless you are running the newserver on your SMEServer, then there should be no problem as far as I can tell.

Can you give us more details about what happens, and even a URL to the newserver that you are trying to connect to?

[sitsstra]

I am having the same problem.
Connecting to news.demon.co.uk

I can go the sme box and type
 telnet news.demon.co.uk 119
and get a connection to demon but when try it from a client the connection says it can not open a connection on port 119.

Any Ideas

[grand-pa]

Try this :
From your SME, get your ISP newsserver IP address (with dig, ping, etc.) and use this IP on your clients computers.

I don't known if this will resolve your problem but we have a similar problem in France with an ISP that checks your own IP and, depending to it, doesn't resolve DNS requests with the same answer.

If your own IP is one of the IP the ISP provides, it resolves with the good IP adresses of its own servers.
When you are behind your SME box, your own IP is the local one, so the ISP doesn't recognise it and it sends a false IP to a DNS request for its servers.
(not simple for me to explain that in english, sorry )