🚀 go-pugleaf

I use ntp1 and ntp as my time servers; and they worked fine using KA9Q
running in MSDOS 6.22.  Before the changeover, the news would always start
flowing immediately.

Since the changeover, of course, my KA9Q set-up has not been able to access
news from Demon.  I know the reason for this but have not been able to
discover whether KA9Q can be used to access the news or, if so, how the
set-up can be changed so that it can be used to down load news from Demon.
I have an account with Individual Net but cannot discover how or if KA9Q is
able to do an authentication of a third party news service.

I have read all the information that I can find on the matter, both
contained in the Demon package and from on-line sources.  So far, I have not
come across any information on whether it is possible or if so what changes
to make to the set-up.  Neither has a great deal of experimentation with
net.exe commands yielded any results other than error messages.

Any assistance on this you could offer would be much appreciated.

I have made several postings to this group and also demon.service through
someone else's set up; and none of them appear to have arrived.

Fingers crossed...

Seasons' Greetings,

Colin


<pete@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1229667143snz@nospam.demon.co.uk...
> Season's Greetings, fellow diehards!
>
> I know you're still there, so thought I'd ask here rather than
> d.service: what time server(s) do you use for ka9q/gremnos/yan
> whatever?
>
> What I've been seeing here (for a long time) is that the response
> from "time auto on" is taking longer and longer, and sometimes
> isn't happening at all.
>
> I've tried ntp.dcu, ntp1.dcu, ntp2.dcu as adverised on Demon's
> website (though "advertised" is perhaps not the right word given
> the trouble I had finding the info!) and also gate.dcu (which I
> found in a CNAME record in domain.txt).
>
> All are as slow to respond as each other, if at all.  Is there a
> reliable public time server available?  Or has NTP changed over
> the years? -- I can believe that it is "my setup", which hasn't.
>
> It's obviously not a huge problem, just a nuisance as news
> doesn't start to flow [automatically] until the time service
> completes.
>
> Cheers,
> Pete
> --
>    "We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors,
>     we have borrowed it from our descendants."