gay@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (lance gay) (09/30/89)
I have installed ANU-News V5.8 on a VAX running VMS 4.7 and am trying to feed it from an Ultrix V3.0 system running News V2.11. After the text of the first article is transferred to VMS, the connection seems to die. It appears that Ultrix is waiting for a response (perhaps the 235 message). Below is the Ultrix nntpxmit debug log (SUNSET is the VMS node name): 200 sunset VMS NNTP server version 5.8 ready at Fri Sep 29 16:39:59 1989 (posting ok). >>> IHAVE <24@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> 335 send article to be transferred. End with <CR-LF>.<CR-LF> >>> . nntpxmit: sunset xfer: Operation not supported nntpxmit: requeue(/news/spool/news/misc/test/97) nntpxmit: cleanup() nntpxmit: rewrite(sunset.nntp) nntpxmit: copying the unused portion of sunset.nntp to /tmp/nntpxmita19205 nntpxmit: writing failed article filenames to /tmp/nntpxmita19205 nntpxmit: wrote 1 article filenames to /tmp/nntpxmita19205 nntpxmit: copying /tmp/nntpxmita19205 back to sunset.nntp nntpxmit: requeue(): reset nntpxmit: rewrite(sunset.nntp): done >>> QUIT nntpxmit: sunset stats 1 offered 1 accepted 0 rejected 1 failed nntpxmit: sunset xmit user 0.2 system 0.4 elapsed 305.5 On the VMS side, a .TMP file is created in NEWS_MANAGER containing the text of the aritcle, but it never gets put into the system. Any help on this matter would be appreciated. This is the first major article I have ever posted on NEWS. Lance Gay TRW, Redondo Beach, CA Internet: gay@venice.sedd.trw.com
gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) (10/04/89)
>I have installed ANU-News V5.8 on a VAX running VMS 4.7 and am trying to >feed it from an Ultrix V3.0 system running News V2.11. After the text of >the first article is transferred to VMS, the connection seems to die. It >appears that Ultrix is waiting for a response (perhaps the 235 message). >Below is the Ultrix nntpxmit debug log (SUNSET is the VMS node name): On the assumption that you are connecting to the NNTP server on the Ultrix siude via DECnet I acn offer the following comments:... The implementation of DECnet on Ultrix is prone to sync errors - The Ultirx DECnet NNTP connection was investigated by Leonard Pierce (as I remember) about 12 months ago, and the trick used then was to include IO$M_MULTIPLE on the channel READ QIO's on the VMS side. Oddly enough I have not been informed of any problems with connecting to Ultrix using TCP as the transport - it's only DECnet which gives problems. Geoff Huston
peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce) (10/06/89)
In article <8910030303.AA09598@uunet.uu.net> Geoff Huston <munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET> writes: >>I have installed ANU-News V5.8 on a VAX running VMS 4.7 and am trying to >>feed it from an Ultrix V3.0 system running News V2.11. After the text of >>the first article is transferred to VMS, the connection seems to die. It >>appears that Ultrix is waiting for a response (perhaps the 235 message). > [...] >The implementation of DECnet on Ultrix is prone to sync errors - >The Ultrix DECnet NNTP connection was investigated by Leonard Peirce (as I >remember) about 12 months ago, and the trick used then was to include >IO$M_MULTIPLE on the channel READ QIO's on the VMS side. The problem is that the DECnet NNTP implementations on VMS and ULTRIX use different socket types. The VMS NNTP uses DECnet sequenced packet sockets and the ULTRIX DECnet NNTP uses stream sockets. Using the IO$M_MULTIPLE qualifier on the QIO's makes the VMS side use stream sockets and things work fine. I had the same problem with things hanging and Matt Thomas (who wrote the NNTP DECnet support for ULTRIX) set me straight about the problems that can occur when using different socket types. Geoff has included the stream socket support for DECnet NNTP in ANU News 5.8A although it isn't the default to maintain compatability. You have to rebuild and with DECNETSTREAM #defined for it to be turned on. Also realize that DECnet stream I/O is only available in VMS 5.0 and beyond. In order to use it, you'll have to upgrade. :-( -- Leonard J. Peirce Internet: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu Western Michigan University peirce@gw.wmich.edu Academic Computer Center UUCP: ...!uunet!sharkey!wmichgw!peirce Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Phone: (616) 387-5469