[Pan-users] Re: connecting to leafnode

[Jim Henderson]

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:08:37 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:26:37 +0000, Thufir wrote:
> 
>> I have leafnode up and running, fetchnews returns a list of groups.  No
>> matter what I enter for a server, pan tasks show it queued and
>> essentially non-responsive.
> 
> Is the port blocked in your firewall configuration?  Start by trying to
> telnet to port 119 on "localhost" and see what happens.  If you can't do
> this, then Pan isn't going to be able to either.

Just to clarify, the command you want is:

telnet localhost 119

Telnetting to localhost (default port is 23) won't tell you what you need 
to know.

Jim