Please describe the problem:
When a news server is not responding for example it's down or you don't have access to it, this completely blocks the pan UI until it time-outs when selecting a group to view its messages. strace shows it is hanging on this:
connect(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(119), sin_addr=inet_addr("81.171.66.10")}, 16


Steps to reproduce:
1. Add 81.171.66.10 as your news server
2. Start pan and click on one of your subscribed groups (accessible via another news server you have configured)


Actual results:
The pan UI completely hangs until the connect() time-outs, even when the group is available on the other news server so no connecto() to this news server would even be necessary.

Expected results:
Being able to immediately continue to use pan, view all cached articles, and view all new articles on the still available news servers.

Does this happen every time?


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