Re: news.php.net NNTP server down?

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Maciek Sokolewicz <maciek.sokolewicz@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using the newsserver at nntp://news.php.net to > view the > mailinglists for quite a while now; it has always worked (it was very slow > and very often timed out, but in the end it always did work). Unfortunately > somewhere this week it stopped working for me. Somewhere between the 5th of > january and the 9th, unfortunately I can't be more precise. > > It might be just me, but for a few days now, the connection keeps timing > out. It used to do that before, but then after a few minutes, it worked. Now > it hasn't come back for the last 2 days anymore... > > So I was wondering if anything changed? Nothing changed, but it looks like the process zombified. Absolutely inexcusable --- the uptime on that box is only 800 days plus twenty-two hours. Killing and relaunching. Give it a try in about five minutes and let me know if it's working for you. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/