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If it's the same error every time, I'd guess maybe your router or ISP is doing some port blocking.... Maybe Alex can give you the URL's and port numbers to try pinging, traceroute, etc. to see where the problem lies.

What error message are you getting?

Getting the "System: 10061" message again....

I can ping ueservice and ueservice2, and telnet to ueservice

Telnet to ueservice2 fails - "Could not open a connection to the host..."

Found that I could telnet from my Lilnux machine, but not from Windows. Both, of course, go through same firewall and router. Noticed I had put dyndns entries in the "hosts" file on the Windows box a while back... why? I don't know (probably trying to get things to run a wee bit faster), I...

Both URLs ping ok.

Still can't connect this morning.

Yes - still can't connect. I suppose it could be an ISP problem, but this seems to be the only thing affected.

connection actively refused..... I reset configuration, and am still getting error 10061. What's up?