JHWELCH@UMAECS.BITNET (Jonathan_Welch) (08/10/89)
I've been trying to get one of our Ultrix V3.0 machines to feed News
(V5.8a).
For test purposes Our Ultrix system manager runs by hand nntpxmit
which generates the following output:
$ nntpxmit -d -D sigma::sigma
200 sigma VMS NNTP server version 5.8 ready at Thu Aug 10 10:56:51 1989
(posting ok).
>>> IHAVE <960001@teecs.UUCP>
335 send article to be transferred. End with <CR-LF>.<CR-LF>
>>> .
nntpxmit: sigma xfer: Broken pipe
The log of successfull transfers to other ultrix hosts looks like this -
>>> IHAVE <5491@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM>
335 Ok
>>> .
Do I need to do anything besides creating a NNTP.COM file as
specified in the documentation to get this to work? I'm sure
there must be many sites with an Ultrix node as their feed -
could anyone shed some light on this dilemma?
Thanks,
Jonathan Welch (413) 545-4655
VAX Systems Programmer Bitnet: jhwelch@UMAECS
UMass, Amherst Internet: jhwelch@ECS.UMASS.EDUgih900@csc.anu.oz (Geoff Huston) (08/21/89)
In article <ANU-NEWS%89081011202674@NDSUVM1>, JHWELCH@UMAECS.BITNET (Jonathan_Welch) writes: >I've been trying to get one of our Ultrix V3.0 machines to feed News >(V5.8a). > >For test purposes Our Ultrix system manager runs by hand nntpxmit >which generates the following output: > >$ nntpxmit -d -D sigma::sigma >200 sigma VMS NNTP server version 5.8 ready at Thu Aug 10 10:56:51 1989 > (posting ok). >>>> IHAVE <960001@teecs.UUCP> >335 send article to be transferred. End with <CR-LF>.<CR-LF> >>>> . >nntpxmit: sigma xfer: Broken pipe The key question is whether you are using decnet to get to Ultrix or TCP - if you are using TCP then the problem is getting more obscure - if you are using the NNTP implementation over DECnet inside Ultrix then there are sync problems with Ultrix talking to VMS over DECnet. I've forgotten who had this problem last time, but it was semi-resolved by including the IO_MULTIPLE modifier on the DECnet QIO requests on the VMS end cause there is a real problem with DECnet IO calls under Ultrix with respect to syncing. Geoff Huston gih900@csc.anu.oz.au