Newsgroups via Outlook Express client

[Sanjeev Johal]

I was trying to access Microsoft's Newsgroup
@ "msnews.microsoft.com" and got the following error
message:

Unable to connect to server
Configuration:
Account: msnews.microsoft.com
Server: msnews.microsoft.com
Protocol: NNTP
Port: 119
Secure(SSL): 0
Code: 800ccc0e

I've tried substituting the server name with the IP
address and putting in my .NET passport login details but
still failing.

Can anyone please help. Thanking you in advance.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Can you ping msnews.microsoft.com and have it resolve to an IP address?
You don't need to put in any login info - it's public.

 

[Sanjeev Johal]

Yes it seems that I can ping and get the following message:

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>ping msnews.microsoft.com

Pinging msnews.microsoft.com [207.46.248.16] with 32 bytes
of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 207.46.248.16:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

When changing the server name to this IP address I now get:

Your 'microsoft.public.windows.outlookexpress5' folder was
not polled for its unread count.
Account: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Server: '207.46.248.16',
Protocol: NNTP, Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error:
10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

Can you help?