Anyway to tell if my ISP have blocked Newsgroups?

Windle · 27 Apr 2007 at 09:22

Is it possible for ISPs to block access to Newsgroups? My newsgroup was downloading yesterday when it crashed out at about 11am. Since then i've been unable to connect to the Newsgroup. Newsdemon say everything is fine their end and have refreshed my connection as well. I've tried various ports and nothing

Error is 10060 - Connection to Server timed out

Would this indicate that possibly the ISP has blocked Newsgroups? :confused:

Nothings been changed on my router, or on my newsgroup grabber.

Windle · 27 Apr 2007 at 10:13

Aye i'm hoping they haven't too. But i can't think of any other reason why it won't connect.

Windle · 27 Apr 2007 at 18:29

grrr, fairly sure i've been blocked. i can ping europe.newsdemon.com (Server for top level subscribers and paypal users) but news.newsdemon.com (main server) dies about 10hops in, presumably when it's hitting Pipex :mad:

Not even an email!

Windle · 27 Apr 2007 at 19:01

Strange and stranger, according to the tracert it looks like the data makes it out through the F2S and Pipex network, so i'm not sure it is getting blocked :/

Windle · 27 Apr 2007 at 19:28

Well i've fired their Tech Support an email. We'll see what happens!