[Pan-users] Pan or server problem?

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

Pan tells me there is no connections and I cannot download group 
articles.  However:

address@hidden:~$ netstat -ta | grep bell
tcp        0      0 Senior.Envision:46754   bignews.bellsouth.:nntp 
TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 Senior.Envision:46755   bignews.bellsouth.:nntp 
TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 Senior.Envision:46753   bignews.bellsouth.:nntp 
TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 Senior.Envision:46750   bignews.bellsouth.:nntp 
TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 Senior.Envision:46751   bignews.bellsouth.:nntp 
TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 Senior.Envision:46748   bignews.bellsouth.:nntp 
TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 Senior.Envision:46749   bignews.bellsouth.:nntp 
TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 Senior.Envision:46746   bignews.bellsouth.:nntp 
TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 Senior.Envision:46747   bignews.bellsouth.:nntp 
TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 Senior.Envision:46745   bignews.bellsouth.:nntp 
TIME_WAIT

This is strange on a couple of levels.  1.  I show 10 connections; and 
2.  I have the max set to 4 for the server.

If I shut down Pan and wait for the connections to die off, then 
restart, I get a repeat performance.

Further:

$ telnet newsgroups.bellsouth.net 119
Trying 216.77.188.18...
Connected to newsgroups.bellsouth.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
400 Too Many Connections [BS-USER2 allows 10 per host/0 per feed (0 == 
nolimit)] (Tornado v1.0.7.391)
Connection closed by foreign host.

$ ping -c 4 newsgroups.bellsouth.net
PING newsgroups.bellsouth.net (216.77.188.18) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from bignews.bellsouth.net (216.77.188.18): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 
time=31.5 ms
64 bytes from bignews.bellsouth.net (216.77.188.18): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 
time=31.4 ms
64 bytes from bignews.bellsouth.net (216.77.188.18): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 
time=31.1 ms
64 bytes from bignews.bellsouth.net (216.77.188.18): icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 
time=31.3 ms

--- newsgroups.bellsouth.net ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 31.160/31.391/31.590/0.234 ms

$ traceroute 216.77.188.18
traceroute to 216.77.188.18 (216.77.188.18), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.96 (192.168.1.96)  0.536 ms  0.459 ms  0.505 ms
 2  65.14.252.34 (65.14.252.34)  11.479 ms  10.276 ms  11.352 ms
 3  65.14.253.17 (65.14.253.17)  13.246 ms  13.696 ms  12.033 ms
 4  adsl-156-253-181.bct.bellsouth.net (66.156.253.181)  12.766 ms 
12.710 ms  12.260 ms
 5  axr01bct-so-0-1-2.bellsouth.net (65.83.237.138)  19.843 ms  13.722 
ms  13.549 ms
 6  pxr00mia-2-0-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.236.18)  33.479 ms  29.539 ms 
30.275 ms
 7  ixc00asm-4-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.237.1)  108.630 ms  105.409 ms 
29.536 ms
 8  205.152.152.46 (205.152.152.46)  34.860 ms  30.335 ms  29.538 ms
 9  205.152.152.6 (205.152.152.6)  33.518 ms  30.661 ms  30.502 ms
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24  * 66.21.240.205 (66.21.240.205)  30.012 ms !A *
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Anyone smarter than me know what all this means?

Rinaldi
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