503 NNTP server unavailable.

[Katsuhiro Kondou]

In article <0vu2i1iw0o.fsf at cs.uni-magdeburg.de>,
	Roland Jesse <jesse at prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De> wrote;

} 503 NNTP server unavailable. Try later.
} Connection closed by foreign host.
} 
} The files errlog and news.err in ~news/log are empty. No error message
} appears in syslog. Any hints on where I might continue looking for the
} responsible error messages are appreciated.

That message probably comes from nnrpd and that
shows your readers.conf has syntax error.  The
error should be also showed in news.notice.
-- 
Katsuhiro Kondou