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From: Henrik Enberg <henrik@enberg.org>
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Rupa Schomaker <rupa-list+gnus@rupa.com> wrote:
> Roland Mas <mas@echo.fr> writes:
> 
>> I've come across this error message recently (ie. maybe for a month or
>> so).  It happens when I gnus-get-new-news, possibly after a while.  It
>> seems the socket dies (firewall might be involved in it), and Gnus
>> fails to handle it correctly.  Here comes the backtrace (I'm unable to
>> understand what parts of it are relevant, so I paste it all).
> 
> When I switched from an ipchains (RH 7.0) based firewall to an
> iptables (debian woody 2.4.5 kernel) this problem disapeared.  It was
> (for me at least) definitely a interraction with my firewall.

Fwiw, I seem have the exact same problem (even if I don't get any errors, it
just won't connect) and I run ipchains on RH 7.1.  I guess its time to move to
iptables.

Henrik
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