Connection refused (10061)

03 Oct 23: One server has been relocated, the server currently doesn't have a public IP address in the meantime. I wrote some additional tunnel code running separately to handle this. When the server is engaged the connection is 5600+ days uniform (since around 24 July 2008). In the unlikely case I disengaged the server because of some problem the retention is 1200-3800 days depending on newsgroup. If you experience any issue please let me know.

29 Nov 23: Because of encrypted and "obfuscated" flood mass posted by few nzb websites and newzbin-like communities using usenet servers as private storage for their members to download the posts - the situation with the content is pretty chaotic, since posts are disguised in such a way, that users must use the satellite ecosystem (whish is not a part of Usenet) exclusively to download them, when the website disappears - the encrypted scattered posts just eat usenet providers' disk space uselessly. If you can't find something specific please let me know what exactly you can't find for me to check how it is possible to retain the posts. Legible posts shouldn't be affected at all, let me know if you notice anything missing.

08 Aug 24: After being unchanged for many years the search service communication protocol had to be updated a few times in part to resolve a server side set feature limitation and properly handle trial searches on the relocated server. The searches themselves are not affected and it looks like the work is now complete.

15 Mar 25: It looks like the search service is currently down as there are no pings. The other server is no more on starlink, but the search requests are still routed and the access to it is through the first server, since it is safer, but the direct access is no problem if this will be a repeated issue. The connection will be restored or server restarted as soon as possible.

16 Mar 25: One server is currently still down, the other server was reconfigured and already connected directly, so the search service is running with minimum possible retention gaps.
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Marten Fokkens
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Connection refused (10061)

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I have many errors when I try to connect the search server.

I think it is already 2 or 3 weeks now.

Search failed(5)

One time it works , the other time not.
Maybe a capacity problem?

Just one time Search failed (1) - system 10061
Several time : Search failed (9) - system 10061
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alex
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Re: Connection refused (10061)

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10061 is connection refused. Most likely the problem is with your computer, maybe router or firewall. With those errors above I can tell the errors are random and don't depend on the destination IP address (those errors belong to different locations).

The "Connection attempt failed because..." message code is 10060, one would get it if there is a routing problem or if the search service connectivity is down. Sometimes I had here periods of bad connection quality, then also in browser I randomly got an error page, in UE the search error was 10060, not connection refused.
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Marten Fokkens
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Re: Connection refused 10061

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If I translate it in English:

The connection is active refused by the target computer......

Is that your computer or mine? I don't know.
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Re: Connection refused 10061

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It is not search service computers, since there are two physical locations with completely different connection setup and you get random errors from both locations, but it may well be your firewall or router, they usually return this error. Try to disable firewall / connect directly without or reset router to see if it is the case.

Also maybe you remember something changed around the time when the problem started, e.g. you installed firewall update or replaced router.
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Marten Fokkens
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Re: Connection refused (10061)

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I changed nothing and I just did 20 searches and there was not any fault.
Strange.
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alex
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Re: Connection refused (10061)

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Most likely the problem is still there, it may depend on other things, e.g. it may happen when you load the connection and in the same time you make a search, the bug is triggered, some kind of sync issue maybe.
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Marten Fokkens
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Re: Connection refused (10061)

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We will see. If I need your help I will tell you.
For now thank you for your assistance and I wish you a nice weekend.
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