KenK wrote:
Paul wrote in :

Your trace above doesn't have enough "NNTP" entries to constitute
a trace of an NNTP session. You should at least be seeing a line
with "nntp", a reference to the outgoing port you've selected
for the session (119). And if we're lucky, a "200" welcome response
from each news server contacted.

You need to turn on more details. IP addresses and so on. Even your
first trace was doing a better job.

If you have a long trace, with full details, copy and paste it into
a pastebin.com window. The pastebin.com window should return a URL,
which you can post here. Just post the URL, and any comments you
might have.

Paul


OK. Made another trace printing with

Packet Summary line
Packet details
All expanded

It's ~650K Too long to post here. Undecipherable to my feeble mind.

First of all, is this what you wanted or so I have to set something else
somewhere in Wireshark?

This Pastebin.com looks VERY complicated. Can you think of another
alternative?

Lastest: Xnews seems to be working with Individual news pretty regularly
using port 8119. Optimax news with port 119 keeps timing out. I tried
using emachine, usually CenturyLink ISP and DSL, with Sitestar dial up
ISP. Still doesn't work with Optimax, though Individual is OK, which I
guess points to emachine problem. Must be a VERY strange problem. I
really don't want to buy a new computer to just read this one news
server.

Now what?

TIA

Ken

Yes, pastebin is very complicated.

1) Go to the source window. In this case, it will be Notepad opening
the Wireshark file you saved.
2) Select all the text. Control-a does select all, or just select all
of it manually.
3) Press control-c to copy (or use "copy" from the edit menu).
4) Go to browser and pastebin.com window. Find the rectangular
area where the paste is to go. Click with the left mouse, to
select that rectangular area. Select "Paste" in your browser
menu or do control-v.
5) You need do to something so pastebin.com will recognize the
rectangle is as full as it is going to get. Scroll down a bit
and click the "Submit" button. Somewhere there, you're going
to get a URL specific to that page of pasted text. That URL
is what you want to copy into a new posting here.

HTH,
Paul