[news.software.nntp] NNTP_FEED DECnet problem -- 5.9C

peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce) (01/14/90)

Well, I finally found the time to upgrade ANU News from 5.8B to 5.9C.  Every-
thing seemed to build ok but when I tried to feed articles to our ULTRIX
machine using NNTP_FEED.EXE died.

I looked at NNTP_FEED.C and it appears that the DECNETSTREAM support that was
previously added was removed (was this intentional?).  I hacked up a version
I thought would work and it does for the most part.  It'll connect to the
NNTP server on ULTRIX and feed the article over but the NNTP server on
ULTRIX returns a 436 code (transfer failed).  

SKIMming articles for remotely served newsgroups works just fine.  It's just
the feeding of articles to ULTRIX that doesn't work.  Has anyone had this
problem with 5.9C?  Does anyone besides me run NNTP over DECnet between VMS
and ULTRIX.  I'm running C News on ULTRIX if that's any help.

I figured it's worth asking before I go and start playing around with NNTP
on ULTRIX.