daniel@island.uu.net (Dan Smith) (08/29/88)
[first off, why is there news.sysadmin and news.admin? is there a difference?
my "newsgroups" file says "Comments directed to system adminstrators" for both]
I've posted a similiar request before, but didn't get any replies
that helped solved things. Perhaps rephrasing/additional info will help.
We get a newsfeed from uunet, and everyday I get a report mailed
to me. This excerpt is typical:
System Accept Reject Junked Xmit to Control % total % rejct
uunet 652 0 2 0 3 100% 0%
TOTALS 652 0 2 0 3 100% 0%
Total Articles processed 652, old 1
Control Invocations
cancel 3, 1 failed
Received Article Length Problems
System Zero Short Smax Savg Long Lmax Lavg Total % Tot
uunet 0 2 3 2 256 2 1 258 39%
^^^^^
and here is one more:
System Accept Reject Junked Xmit to Control % total % rejct
local 1 0 0 0 0 0% 0%
uunet 949 0 5 0 3 99% 0%
TOTALS 950 0 5 0 3 100% 0%
Total Articles processed 950
Control Invocations
cancel 3, 2 failed
Received Article Length Problems
System Zero Short Smax Savg Long Lmax Lavg Total % Tot
uunet 0 1 125 125 269 4 1 270 28%
^^^^^
The thing that bothers me is having so many articles marked
as "long". We get a compressed batched news feed of approx. 50k
chunks. We used to get 150k chunks, but it seemed like we were
missing more news. I have some questions:
Have other people receiving from uunet (or anywhere else, for
that matter) experienced this problem?
Is the "long" article count/% relevant?
Should I switch to ihave/sendme? If I do, is it going to take
a lot more time to get the news?
Perhaps relevant...we seem to have problems getting mail from
uunet as well (it often bounces), but only from that one site. The
sysadmin here and I are fairly stumped on that one.
Our news and mail machine, island, is a Sun 2/170 running 3.2, with
the standard uucp/sendmail that comes with it. We're about to go
with HDBuucp. Have others with Suns gone through the same problems, only
to have them clear up with HDB?
Thanks for any net.helpful. If you mail me, could you please Cc:
a copy through sun or ucbcad.edu? It would be interesting to see what
doesn't make it through uunet, but does go through other sites. Perhaps
I could see a pattern to it that way.
By the way, none of this should be taken as a flame on uunet. I
like what we have gotten from them. I just want to be sure that we're
set up correctly.
dan
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