Unable to Read news

[Guest]

When I try and open my news reader from outlook 2000
(outlook express newsreader) I get the following message:-

"The TCP connection was unexpectedly terminated by the
server"

Details >>
Configuration:
Account: news.microsoft.com
Server: news.microsoft.com
Protocol: NNTP
Port: 119
Secure(SSL): 0
Code: 800ccc0f

Does anybody have any ideas on this, I have looked at the
port 119 from ISA on the server and I appear to have
access on this port. The machine is XP Pro, Outlook 2000.
The server is running SBS 2003

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Patrick Cras]

Server: news.microsoft.com

Does anybody have any ideas on this, I have looked at the
port 119 from ISA on the server and I appear to have
access on this port. The machine is XP Pro, Outlook 2000.
The server is running SBS 2003

Any help would be appreciated.

The name for the Microsoft Newsserver is msnews.microsoft.com and
not news.microsoft.com

Patrick

 

[Brian Tillman]

The name for the Microsoft Newsserver is msnews.microsoft.com and
not news.microsoft.com

$ nslookup news.microsoft.com
Server: lucky.agre.smiths.aero
Address: 10.33.2.6

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: msnews.MICROSOFT.COM
Address: 207.46.248.16
Aliases: NEWS.MICROSOFT.COM

Both are legal.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.