ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) (04/03/85)
Some time ago, someone posted an enhancement to news to allow an
extension of the "L" flag in the sys file to say that articles
from "close" neighbors, as well as articles generated locally,
should be passed on to the other neighbors. For example,
nsc:net,fa,usa,na,ca,ba,mod,to.nsc:BFL2:/usr/spool/batch/nsc
should send on articles that have been generated locally, as well
as those generated within 2 hops. I put in this change, but it seems
as though the number doesn't make a difference. ALL of our neighbors
get our articles and those of our one-hop neighbors, REGARDLESS of
whether their sys line has L0, L1, or L2.
Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Any fixes or alternate
ways to get the same effect?
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Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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ARPA: turtlevax!ken@DECWRL.ARPAbytebug@pertec.UUCP (roger long) (05/01/85)
> Some time ago, someone posted an enhancement to news to allow an > extension of the "L" flag in the sys file to say that articles > from "close" neighbors, as well as articles generated locally, > should be passed on to the other neighbors. For example, > nsc:net,fa,usa,na,ca,ba,mod,to.nsc:BFL2:/usr/spool/batch/nsc > should send on articles that have been generated locally, as well > as those generated within 2 hops. I put in this change, but it seems > as though the number doesn't make a difference. ALL of our neighbors > get our articles and those of our one-hop neighbors, REGARDLESS of > whether their sys line has L0, L1, or L2. > > Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Any fixes or alternate > ways to get the same effect? > -- > Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA As I was the "someone", I worked with Ken for a bit and did discover a small problem in the change. If you add the following indicated lines to the previous patch, you'll find that if you just specify "L" in the sys file, inews will act as it did before, only forwarding locally generated articles. ---------- if (local) { /* allow local to mean within 'n' hops */ ++ptr; if (isdigit(*ptr)) local = *ptr - '0'; + else + local = 0; for (ptr = h.path; *ptr != '\0'; local--) while (*ptr++ != '\0') ; if (local < 0) { fclose(ifp); return FALSE; } } ---------- -- roger long pertec computer corp {ucbvax!unisoft | scgvaxd | trwrb | felix}!pertec!bytebug
ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) (05/02/85)
I have indeed tested Roger Long's extension to the L flag, and found it
to work well. It is reasonably short; maybe Roger could repost a patch
file to ifuncs.c. It will help the robustness of the net, and is
something that ought to be in news 2.10.3.
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Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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