NG technical issues: Is it just me?

[lawrence via Digitalmars-d]

On 04/20/2017 02:09 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 20.04.2017 21:45, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
>> Using Thunderbird to access this NG, but as of about a couple months ago
>> (IIRC), this problem started happening. Anybody else having this
>> problem?:
>>
>> When I try to select a new unread message to read, I've got roughly a
>> 10% or so chance that it'll fail with a "The connection was refused when
>> attempting to contact news.digitalmars.com:119."
>>
>> But here's the weird thing: Once that error DOES occur, then ALL further
>> attempts to download/view a new post fail with the same error...until I
>> hit "Get Messages" or switch to a different sub-forum and then back,
>> which consistently fixes the issue (until it happens again a few
>> messages later).
>>
>> *Looks* like a server/network issue but behaves like a screwy local
>> issue.
>
> It's not just you. I have the same issues.
I used to have this same problem, until I sent the server settings to 
check for updates every 2 minutes.