paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) (01/25/91)
Hi My machine is using C News and I am getting rmail reply message from B News site telling me that "Incomming news is garbled" . B News site is really wishing my system to go back to B News and I would like to know how to find the problem with other site using B News. Are there known compatible problem between C News and B News? I am getting up to 10 rmail error message from one B News site and I have no problem with other sites. Can you help me how to tract this problem soon? It is long distance newsfeed and I dont want to waste both site's time on getting rmail error message. Thank you for your time. willy
clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) (01/26/91)
In article <9101241837.AA01633@decpa.pa.dec.com> paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes: >My machine is using C News and I am getting rmail reply message from >B News site telling me that "Incomming news is garbled" . B News >site is really wishing my system to go back to B News and I would like >to know how to find the problem with other site using B News. Are there >known compatible problem between C News and B News? Not particularly, C news can be configured to feed any type of B news. What version of B news is the site running? What is on the front of the batches? "#!rnews"? "#!cunbatch"? Nothing? Are they compressed batches? Are they batched? -- Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541, Internet: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca UUCP: uunet!mitel!cunews!latour!ecicrl!clewis Moderator of the Ferret Mailing List (ferret-request@eci386) Psroff enquiries: psroff-request@eci386, current patchlevel is *7*.
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (01/29/91)
In article <9101241837.AA01633@decpa.pa.dec.com> paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes: >My machine is using C News and I am getting rmail reply message from >B News site telling me that "Incomming news is garbled" . B News >site is really wishing my system to go back to B News and I would like >to know how to find the problem with other site using B News. Are there >known compatible problem between C News and B News? I help administrate a local B News site that had the same problem after its feed switched to C news. It turned out that they weren't generating compressed batches correctly. News is now flowing in the C News -> B News direction (but I'm convinced that some articles are getting dropped, and C News' "terse" log files are pretty much useless for explaining what's really happening). Articles posted from the B News site don't get propagated out of the C News site and the C News administrator has never been able to get it to work properly despite weeks of trying. I really wish they'd switch back to B News. C News may be faster on their machine, but B News WORKED CORRECTLY and seems to be much more tolerant of less-than-wizardly administrators. -=EPS=-
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (01/30/91)
In article <1246@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: >>... Are there >>known compatible problem between C News and B News? > >I help administrate a local B News site that had the same problem >after its feed switched to C news. It turned out that they >weren't generating compressed batches correctly... I'm always puzzled when people report things like this, because C News has talked to B News -- correctly, completely, without dropping articles or doing anything else unkind -- from the beginning. When problems have cropped up, it's usually been because somebody got creative with the configuration, without really understanding what he was doing, rather than following the supplied examples. >I'm convinced that some articles are getting dropped, and C News' "terse" >log files are pretty much useless for explaining what's really >happening... What extra information should they supply? Local experience has been that they tell you everything you really want for debugging. >... the C News administrator >has never been able to get it to work properly despite weeks of >trying. Details would be useful. This is not the usual experience. -- If the Space Shuttle was the answer, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology what was the question? | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) (01/31/91)
we run cnews - and talk to bnews, cnews, waffle, ufgate plus vaxnews
sites without ANY problems..
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Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287 (HST/PEP/V.32/v.42bis)
regional UUCP mapping coordinator
{larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar!larry, larry%nstar@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu}