What does this newsserver error mean?
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:22 pm
I use Forté Agent to access Usenet, through news.sonic.net. This has worked well for the past four years. However, tonight, I'm getting an error message that's different from anything I've seen in the past:
Agent does have the ability to open multiple connections to transfer more than one article at a time. I have it configured to limit to 2 connections for retrieving bodies, just so that I don't hog bandwidth and processing power.
At 10:38, I had Agent go retrieve the article headers for a subset of groups that I read, and it was successful. After marking the articles that I want to read, I sent Agent back to retrieve those bodies. That's when I started getting the error.
In the past, I've occasionally gotten:
I exited Agent, checked netstat to ensure there were no connections to news.sonic.net, and then restarted it. However, as soon as I told it to go fetch the article bodies, I immediately got the same error.
Even weirder is that I told Agent to go fetch headers from some different newsgroups. Even as I was staring at the "Your host connection limit..." error, I saw Agent retrieve headers from seven different groups.
I upgraded Agent to the latest version (7) early last week, but I've used it with no problem several times, until I ran into this issue.
Any ideas?
This is preventing me from connecting AT ALL to the newsserver. In other words, it's not a case that Agent successfully makes one connection, and then I receive the error for the second connection. This is occurring on all connection attempts.400 nnrp1.nntp.sonic.net: Your host connection limit reached - [email protected].
Agent does have the ability to open multiple connections to transfer more than one article at a time. I have it configured to limit to 2 connections for retrieving bodies, just so that I don't hog bandwidth and processing power.
At 10:38, I had Agent go retrieve the article headers for a subset of groups that I read, and it was successful. After marking the articles that I want to read, I sent Agent back to retrieve those bodies. That's when I started getting the error.
In the past, I've occasionally gotten:
That makes sense. But I can't figure out why the error at the top is different.481 (remote) (hcl:sonicnet;50.0.xx.xx) exceeded maximum number of connections per IP.
I exited Agent, checked netstat to ensure there were no connections to news.sonic.net, and then restarted it. However, as soon as I told it to go fetch the article bodies, I immediately got the same error.
Even weirder is that I told Agent to go fetch headers from some different newsgroups. Even as I was staring at the "Your host connection limit..." error, I saw Agent retrieve headers from seven different groups.
I upgraded Agent to the latest version (7) early last week, but I've used it with no problem several times, until I ran into this issue.
Any ideas?
