Eternal September

It is my recollection that users have been experiencing problems with Eternal September for at least a decade.

I've been using it most of the morning without any apparent delays.

Not noticed here, but then again, I am not sure I would necessarily notice slow usenet download speeds since it is such a small amount of data compared to most anything else these days.

(my own posts seem to be appearing immediately)

Thanks Jeff, could be my news client News Tap that is the problem although for the year or so I have been using it so far it has been fine.

Thanks John, it does not seem to affect my uploads which seem quite normal. The headers appear instantly as normal it just when you open an article it spends an inordinate amount of time before displaying it.

Watch it with Wireshark, and see if it is Authenticating again. If you use Port 119, the protocol uses text and the packets can be read, as to their purpose.

Server name: news.eternal-september.org Port : 119 (NNTP) <=== not encrypted, viewable in Wireshark Port : 563 (encrypted connection NNTPS)

Servername: reader80.eternal-september.org Port : 80

Servername: reader443.eternal-september.org Port : 443 (encrypted connection NNTPS)

The timeout constant has been changed, and I don't notice the usage of quick connections any more (dropping the connection almost immediately). When I look in tcpview.exe right now, there are two Thunderbird connections lashed up to E-S. I don't think it used to work that way in the past.

My Max_connections is likely set to two connections, which is why two connections are affixed at the moment. While the client could drop the connection, it has not in my case. And there does not appear to be any notion of keep-alive either. There is no overhead from the connections, no unnecessary packets.

Paul

It has been somewhat variable of late, but its OK for me now.

Really? My cups of coffee cost about 6p each.

Things are back to normal like you say it has been a bit variable, I suppose you cannot complain too much when it is for free.

Good - all the money you are saving could easily pay for news.individual.net then :-)

It died for me over last weekend. My PC was taking so long to shut down I just powered it off at the mains.

At next bootup, all my subscriptions had vanished so I have started again with just uk.d-i-y.

Seems ok now.