Tiscali blocking a newsserver ???

Cant connect to my usual newsreader.com news server and while its quite
possible that newsreader.com is having technical problems - all my other
news servers are working fine with no problems .

newsreader.com doesnt even get to the auth stage .

I'm not accusing tiscali of anything - it just seems a bit strange thats
all as i'm sure tiscali would never do such a thing just because a user
told the truth about the type of service they get during peak hours .

Not even sure why i'm posting this as its 99.99% sure that its a
newsreader.com problem/issue and tiscali are totally innocent and its
not their fault .


Just curious if any of you think tiscali would actually be capable of
doing such a thing - what do you reckon ? .

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In message <(E-Mail Removed)> , Vhit
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>Not even sure why i'm posting this as its 99.99% sure that its a
>newsreader.com problem/issue and tiscali are totally innocent and its
>not their fault .

Using a f2s connection a ping to newsreader.com (38.144.126.80) fails
and a traceroute fails at the last stages. It probably means that
newsreader.com is broken

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> >Not even sure why i'm posting this as its 99.99% sure that its a
> >newsreader.com problem/issue and tiscali are totally innocent and its
> >not their fault .
>
> Using a f2s connection a ping to newsreader.com (38.144.126.80) fails
> and a traceroute fails at the last stages. It probably means that
> newsreader.com is broken
>

Thanks for that .

Strangely enough tiscali is working fine tonight - its usually like
treacle at this time of night .

Or is that the famous last words :-))

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"Alan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In message <(E-Mail Removed)> , Vhit
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
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>>
>>Not even sure why i'm posting this as its 99.99% sure that its a
>>newsreader.com problem/issue and tiscali are totally innocent and its
>>not their fault .
>
> Using a f2s connection a ping to newsreader.com (38.144.126.80) fails and
> a traceroute fails at the last stages. It probably means that
> newsreader.com is broken

Or it's behind a firewall that drops ICMP packets, which isn't uncommon.

Dan