I've recently been having problems downloading with grabit. It used to work perfectly, and I don't remember changing any settings.
I use port forwarding and I reckon I've got the settings right for that.
The error message is: "Unable to connect to News:119"
I've tried google.
And the hostname is definitely just news, I thought it was weird too but those are the instructions my ISP gave and it worked until just recently :|
Cheers!
