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Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 09:01:19
From: agdndmc@showme.missouri.edu (Domingo Martinez-Castilla)
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Subject: Mosaic (Winsock): NCSA server refuses connection. Why?
It is been 2 weeks or so since the last time I was able to access the "What's
new" NCSA WWW page. (Tried weekends, night time, etc.). Then I realized that
every call to any NCSA pags will cause a message box stating:
"SOCKET: connection has been refused"
And a moment ago, just for the sake of experimentation, I tried to FTP to the
NCSA machine, and WS-FTP gave me
Connect failed:-connection refused.
I am taking this *very* personally, because I do not have that problem with
any other WWW server.
Possible explanations:
1. It is just incredibly busy.
2. With FTP, I have noticed that there is a couple of servers which will not
allow calls from IP numbers that lack a corresponding name residing at some
name server (DNS), which happens to be my case and also the case of many
people working at universities. I was able to send mail to the developers
(ack. received), but no answer. If that is the case, I suggest the refusal
message specifies the reason for it.
If the problem is that the server is too busy, why not putting one or two
mirror "What's new" pages somewhere else, and announce that in this
newsgroup? That page is critical for the growth of the Web.
By the way, Mosaic 2.0a4 (32 bits) is quite more stable. Kudos for a great
product (you may want to know that in many places people use Mosaic as
equivalent to WWW).
Cheers
Domingo Martinez.