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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus starting with an error message - very strange
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:22:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ex828dd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd05eefa-7cbf-4b59-8533-06502390976e@googlegroups.com>

emil.vatai@gmail.com writes:

> The error message is "Warning: Opening nntp server on news...failed:
>>>> (error news/nntp Name or service not known); Server nntp+news
> previously determined to be down; not retrying;"

I'm not sure, but try looking at the Server buffers on both machines
(with "^") and seeing if they look different? Try hitting "O" on the
nntp server line on the non-functioning machine?

Eric



  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-08 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-08 19:09 emil.vatai
2017-09-08 21:22 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.172.1504905902.14750.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2017-09-09 18:17   ` Emil Vatai
2017-09-09 18:33     ` Emil Vatai
2017-09-09 21:39 ` Adam Sjøgren
     [not found] ` <mailman.213.1504993195.14750.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2017-09-10  8:29   ` Emil Vatai
2017-09-10  9:57     ` Adam Sjøgren

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