# nntp access issues? **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [November 6, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nntp-access-issues/23274 "2012-11-06T15:21:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nntp-access-issues/23274/1 "2012-11-06T15:21:13Z")
Has anything changed recently? Seems like the past few days I frequently get timeout errors while posting or reading the forum with my newsreader. Is it just me? Ken ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nntp-access-issues/23274/2 "2012-11-06T15:22:23Z")
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:21:13 GMT, KeN Etter [ketter@no-mx.forums.novell.com](mailto:ketter@no-mx.forums.novell.com) wrote: [color=blue] > Has anything changed recently? Seems like the past few days I > frequently get timeout errors while posting or reading the forum with > my newsreader. Is it just me? > > Ken[/color] Actually the error is “Connection closed unexpectedly by server”. Ken ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nntp-access-issues/23274/3 "2012-11-06T15:36:02Z")
> [@](#): > > On Tue 06 Nov 2012 01:21:13 PM CST, KeN Etter wrote: > > Has anything changed recently? Seems like the past few days I > frequently get timeout errors while posting or reading the forum with > my newsreader. Is it just me? > > Ken Hi Yes, there is a new switch in the mix… on claws-mail I had to reduce the socket i/o connection timeout to get things back to normal… Is there a setting like this in Forte Agent? – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.2 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop up 8 days 14:24, 4 users, load average: 0.19, 0.06, 0.06 CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nntp-access-issues/23274/4 "2012-11-06T16:39:17Z")
KeN Etter sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > Has anything changed recently? Seems like the past few days I > frequently get timeout errors while posting or reading the forum with > my newsreader. Is it just me? > > Ken[/color] So my response to KeN’s comment is… I’ve had similar things happen from time to time, nothing had changed on our end, no one else was having problems, then out of the blue starts working fine again. Gotta love technology. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nntp-access-issues/23274/5 "2012-11-06T17:29:16Z")
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:36:02 GMT, malcolmlewis [malcolmlewis@no-mx.forums.novell.com](mailto:malcolmlewis@no-mx.forums.novell.com) wrote: [color=blue] > > [@](#): > > > > On Tue 06 Nov 2012 01:21:13 PM CST, KeN Etter wrote: > > > > Has anything changed recently? Seems like the past few days I > > frequently get timeout errors while posting or reading the forum with > > my newsreader. Is it just me? > > > > Ken > > Hi > Yes, there is a new switch in the mix… on claws-mail I had to reduce > the socket i/o connection timeout to get things back to normal… > > Is there a setting like this in Forte Agent?[/color] Sounds like there is if I upgrade to the current version. Ken