bruce@claven.cambridge.ibm.com (Bruce Greer) (06/11/91)
I have a question about the way an NNTP fed machine is supposed to operate. We have one news machine that 10-15 people use. It receives an NNTP feed. While it took some time figuring out how to get the incoming batches unpacked and distributed for reading, it took even longer for me to figure out how to get articles that we post to be transmitted back to our upstream feed. We receive lots (I won't guess how many) of articles daily. The way we're set up now, our machine turns around and offers to nntpxmit all of the articles we receive back to the feed where we got them. Could someone tell me if this is what's supposed to happen? Ideally, we should only offer to transmit back articles generated here. Thanks for any help, Bruce Greer VMID: GREER at CAMBRIDG IBM Technical Computing IBMNET: bruce@sim.cambridge.ibm.com 101 Main Street Cambridge, MA 02142 Internet: bruce@claven.cambridge.ibm.com Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation. Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed here do not represent IBM.
kenc@suntan.viewlogic.com (Kenstir) (06/13/91)
In article <1991Jun11.144346.9015@claven.cambridge.ibm.com>, bruce@claven.cambridge.ibm.com (Bruce Greer) writes: > I have a question about the way an NNTP fed machine is supposed to operate. > We have one news machine that 10-15 people use. It receives an NNTP feed. > While it took some time figuring out how to get the incoming batches > unpacked and distributed for reading, it took even longer for me to figure > out how to get articles that we post to be transmitted back to our upstream > feed. We receive lots (I won't guess how many) of articles daily. > The way we're set up now, our machine turns around and offers to nntpxmit > all of the articles we receive back to the feed where we got them. > Could someone tell me if this is what's supposed to happen? Ideally, > we should only offer to transmit back articles generated here. The problem is not with NNTP, it is with the /usr/lib/news/sys file for Cnews or Bnews, whichever you run at your site. This is what happens with Cnews: The "Path:" header of every article received is checked to see if the site(s) you feed have seen it yet. If the name of the system you are sending to is different from the name of the system as it appears in the Path header, then every article you receive will turn around and go right back! I send to "m2c.m2c.org", but they put only "!m2c!" in the Path header, so I need an entry like so in my sys file: m2c.m2c.org/m2c: ... -- Kenneth H. Cox Viewlogic Systems, Inc. kenc@viewlogic.com ..!{harvard,husc6}!viewlogic.com!kenc