NG technical issues: Is it just me?

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d]

On 04/20/2017 12:45 PM, 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.

Started happening more in recent weeks.

I don't select automatic checking for messages. I just click on a 
newsgroup and it fails at differing rates. (Pretty good in the last 
couple of days.) When it fails, for me the cure is to click on another D 
newsgroup to make a successful connection and then come back to the 
failed one; then it always succeeds.

Ali