On Sat, 09 May 2009 08:18:45 -0400, clipka wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> > Can a firewall filter certain NGs out (maybe that have ".org" in them
>> > instead of ".com")?
>>
>> Possibly; you'd have to ask your firewall administrator.
> 
> If even telnet to the port won't work, it cannot be a NG-specific
> filter, can it?
> 
> So looks like the whole NG server is deliberately filtered out (or, more
> likely, not deliberately "filtered in").

Not group-specific, the entire server is blocked, either intentionally or 
not.

I took Eric's post to mean "news server" because he mentioned ".org" vs. 
".com" - that would be server-based rather than group-based, since the 
group doesn't have the server's name or DNS entry in it.

Thinking about it a little more, I wonder what would happen if he used 
the server's IP address rather than the DNS name.

Jim

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