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nzblover123
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Invalid server address.

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Hi everyone,

I am tring to use sabnzbd on my local computer (macbook pro), but it fails when testing servers, ths error is "Invalid server address". I've also tried with nzbget, with error msg "Connection to newshosting failed: Error 60 - Operation timed out".

The above errors occur when I use my wifi, but works fines when I switch to mobile hot spot (4G) network. It's not the DNS problem because I've set DNS to Google's for both cases. It seems the ISP of my wifi network blocks something while the ISP of 4G network does not?

Any reply will be much appreciated! Thank you.
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Re: Invalid server address.

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Which address have you filled out?
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Re: Invalid server address.

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sander wrote: November 17th, 2021, 1:21 am Which address have you filled out?
Thanks for your reply. It's the server from newshosting: "news(dot)newshosting(dot)com". New users are not allowed to post links here so I use "(dot)" to replace ".". But I don't think that's the problem because everything works fine when I use my 4G mobile hot spot.
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Re: Invalid server address.

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On what network are you? ISP, work, school, ... ?

What if you fill out
IP address for news(dot)newshosting(dot)com
newsreader.eweka.nl
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Re: Invalid server address.

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sander wrote: November 17th, 2021, 2:32 am On what network are you? ISP, work, school, ... ?

What if you fill out
IP address for news(dot)newshosting(dot)com
newsreader.eweka.nl
I am in the school's network.

Using IP address of newshosting does not work.
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Re: Invalid server address.

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Then I suppose your school is blocking usenet traffic. Talk to your school.
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Re: Invalid server address.

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sander wrote: November 17th, 2021, 8:55 am Then I suppose your school is blocking usenet traffic. Talk to your school.
Is there any way to use proxy on sabnzbd or nzbget?
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Re: Invalid server address.

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nzblover123 wrote: November 17th, 2021, 9:14 am
sander wrote: November 17th, 2021, 8:55 am Then I suppose your school is blocking usenet traffic. Talk to your school.
Is there any way to use proxy on sabnzbd or nzbget?
See https://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/pull/1894
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Re: Invalid server address.

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sander wrote: November 17th, 2021, 9:17 am
nzblover123 wrote: November 17th, 2021, 9:14 am
sander wrote: November 17th, 2021, 8:55 am Then I suppose your school is blocking usenet traffic. Talk to your school.
Is there any way to use proxy on sabnzbd or nzbget?
See https://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/pull/1894
Thank you so much. I will give it a try later.
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Re: Invalid server address.

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nzblover123 wrote: November 17th, 2021, 9:35 am
sander wrote: November 17th, 2021, 9:17 am
nzblover123 wrote: November 17th, 2021, 9:14 am

Is there any way to use proxy on sabnzbd or nzbget?
See https://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/pull/1894
Thank you so much. I will give it a try later.
Note: Please join that github thread for questions / remarks / help on SAB & proxy
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