[news.software.anu-news] Having problems setting up a decnet feed

BRIAN@UOFT02.BITNET (Brian Nelson) (10/13/89)

Hello,
     
I've been trying to set up a decnet feed to another site, and not having
much luck. After recompiling nntp_feed with debugging set to 1, I obtain
the following messages when trying it. Does anyone have an idea what I have
done wrong? The server machine is running vms 5.2, news 5.8a and the client
node is running vms 5.1-1 with news 5.8a. The NEWS_CLIENT program works from
from either node.
     
     
o$ nntpnnnn    _feed desire decnet dua6:[news_mgr.ihave_desire]collect.i
   ds tt: tt:
        Connecting to NEWS SERVER on node desire:: ...
X> Try open channel to remote node
Net: Could not open network channel
Cannot connect to node, retry: <20883@gryphon.com>
12 Oct 89 21:31:20  uoft02.utoledo.edu: nntpxmit: desire, Error: Connection lost
, transfer aborted.
     
     
     
Thanks,
     
Brian Nelson
     
Brian@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Brian@uoft02.bitnet

gih900@csc.anu.oz (Geoff Huston) (10/26/89)

In article <ANU-NEWS%89101220394092@NDSUVM1>, BRIAN@UOFT02.BITNET (Brian Nelson) writes:
> I've been trying to set up a decnet feed to another site, and not having
> much luck. After recompiling nntp_feed with debugging set to 1, I obtain
> the following messages when trying it. Does anyone have an idea what I have
> done wrong? The server machine is running vms 5.2, news 5.8a and the client
> node is running vms 5.1-1 with news 5.8a. The NEWS_CLIENT program works from
> from either node.

There is a bug in NNTP_FEED (well not really a bug, more a change which was not
made by me):



/* remove this line        sprintf(netobj,"%s::\"NEWS=\"",node); */
/* changed code */
        sprintf(netobj,"%s::\"TASK=NNTP\"",node);
        return(sys$assign(c$dsc(netobj),&net_chan,0,0) & 1);

It is trying to connect to a different object!

Geoff Huston
 
(needless to say this will be in the next patch set (5.9B)