Internet News Does Not Disconnect After Downloading Messages

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Internet Mail and News version 1.0 for Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When you choose to disconnect from the news server after downloading messages by clicking Post And Download on the Offline menu in Internet News, you may remain connected to your Internet service provider (ISP) after the messages are downloaded.

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if you established your Internet connection with a program other than Internet News.

RESOLUTION

Quit the program that you used to connect to the Internet.

MORE INFORMATION

When a program loads Dial-Up Networking and sends a dial command to establish a connection to an Internet server, the connection between the client computer and the server is essentially the same as being connected to a local area network (LAN) with a network cable. It can be helpful to consider your modem as a second network adapter in your computer, as it is available as a network connection to any program on the computer.

Any program that tries to make a network connection transparently uses the Dial-Up Networking connection first (the Dial-Up Networking connection becomes the primary connection, and any available LAN connections are secondary connections). Dial-Up Networking is not aware of which (if any) programs are passing data across the connection. Dial-Up Networking also does not record which program originally sent the dial command to establish a connection.