From: swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news,news.software.b
Subject: ANU-NEWS to C-NEWS help wanted
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:56:27 GMT

I am trying to get a SUN ELC running C-NEWS to accept a feed from a VAX 6320
running ANU-NEWS (6.03 I think).  The VAX has been running ANU-NEWS for a
few years now with no problem, except the VAX is heavily loaded a lot of the
time.  Unfortunately, the person who installed/maintained ANU-NEWS has taken
a new job out of town and didn't seem to leave any notes behind.  Since the
VAX is heavily over-worked, I want the SUN to be our dedicated NEWS server. 
I want to use the VAX as a feed for the SUN until I see that everything is
working correctly on the SUN.  Then I will get a feed for the SUN from
off-campus and shut down the VAX news server.

C-NEWS and NNTPD appear to be working.  I have four newsgroups set up on the
SUN now.  I am able to connect to the SUN using various newsreaders from
various platforms.  I am able to read and post messages.  I just can't seem
to get a feed from the VAX to the SUN to work.

The address for the VAX is ducvax.auburn.edu, the address for the SUN is
news.duc.auburn.edu.

Here is the entry I put for news.duc.auburn.edu in NEWS.SYS on the VAX:


news.duc.auburn.edu:world,inet,anu,comp,sci,rec,news,misc,soc,talk,aus,\
usa,na,al,\
ab,athena,bln,chv,clari,cle,cos,csu,cth,cu,dk,dn,dnet,dtek,duke,\
edm,essug,fnet,fub,gbg,ieee,info,k12,kc,kw,math,mcnc,melb,mhk,mtl,\
nbg,ncsc,netmbx,nil,nlnet,nmsu,no,nordunet,north,nyc,nynex,nz,\
ott,pa,pgh,phl,pnw,princeton,pubnet,puddle,purdue,qtp,rec,rpi,\
sac,sat,scot,scruz,sdnet,seattle,slo,srcext,stgt,stl,sub,swnet,\
tba,tn,tor,triangle,tub,tue,uberlin,ucb,uch,uchi,udel,uiuc,\
upenn,utc,uwisc,uxa,wi,yale,york,zer,\
bionet,gnu,ddn,vmsnet,biz,canb,alt,local,junk,control,general,auburn,\
unix-pc,u3b,atl,austin,ba,boulder,ca,can,capdist,chi,co,dc,dfw,eunet,\
fj,fl,ga,houston,hsv,ks,la,lou,ls,mi,milw,mit,mn,ne,nj,nwu,ny,oau,oc\
oh,ok,ont,or,pdx,su,tx,uc,uk,ut,utcs,uw,va,to.emory,bit:N:\
NEWS_MANAGER_DEV/[ihave_duc]collect.ids


I put the following entry for ducvax.auburn.edu in /usr/lib/news/sys on the
SUN:


ducvax.auburn.edu:world,inet,to.DUCVAX,anu,comp,sci,rec,news,misc,soc,talk,aus,\
usa,na,al,\
ab,athena,bln,chv,clari,cle,cos,csu,cth,cu,dk,dn,dnet,dtek,duke,\
edm,essug,fnet,fub,gbg,ieee,info,k12,kc,kw,math,mcnc,melb,mhk,mtl,\
nbg,ncsc,netmbx,nil,nlnet,nmsu,no,nordunet,north,nyc,nynex,nz,\
ott,pa,pgh,phl,pnw,princeton,pubnet,puddle,purdue,qtp,rec,rpi,\
sac,sat,scot,scruz,sdnet,seattle,slo,srcext,stgt,stl,sub,swnet,\
tba,tn,tor,triangle,tub,tue,uberlin,ucb,uch,uchi,udel,uiuc,\
upenn,utc,uwisc,uxa,wi,yale,york,zer,\
bionet,gnu,ddn,vmsnet,biz,canb,alt,local,junk,control,general,auburn,\
unix-pc,u3b,atl,austin,ba,boulder,ca,can,capdist,chi,co,dc,dfw,eunet,\
fj,fl,ga,houston,hsv,ks,la,lou,ls,mi,milw,mit,mn,ne,nj,nwu,ny,oau,oc\
oh,ok,ont,or,pdx,su,tx,uc,uk,ut,utcs,uw,va,to.emory,bit:f:


I created the directory NEWS_MANAGER_DEV:[ihave_duc].  Collect.ids was
already there the first time I looked, apparently created by our ADD_BATCH
job (ADD_BATCH takes the incoming batches of messages and puts them in the
correct directories).  Collect.ids continues to grow in size and seems to
contain a bunch of message id's (I had to use DUMP to see, this is an
indexed file - if I change the NX to an N in NEWS.SYS, collect.ids is an
ascii file, but I have the same problems listed below).


I tried to start the feed with the following commands:


$ nn :== $news_manager:nntp_xmit
$ nn -x news.duc.auburn.edu multinet -
news_manager_dev:[ihave_duc]collect.ids -
news_manager:duc.log news_manager:duc.debug


It ran for a moment or so and stopped.  The message in duc.debug was:


X> Try open channel to remote node
X> IHAVE <!6wj-!q.garyd@netcom.com><No reply received, retry: <!6wj-!q.garyd@netcom.com>


The message in duc.log was:


13 Apr 92 13:30:13  ducvax.auburn.edu: nntpxmit: news.duc.auburn.edu 1 offered, 
0 accepted, 0 rejected, 0 failed, 0 expired13 Apr 92 13:30:13  ducvax.auburn.edu
: nntpxmit: news.duc.auburn.edu, Error: Connection lost, transfer aborted.
 

There are several thousand messages in our news system.  I don't understand
why none of them are being transferred to the SUN.  Obviously, something is
not set up correctly.  I would appreciate any help I could get to get the
VAX feed to the SUN working correctly.  I've looked through the ANU-NEWS
docs and the C-NEWS docs that I have with no luck.  I am not sure which is
at fault here (maybe both).

Thanks in advance for any help you can send.

-- 
David Swanger,   Auburn University,   swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu 
"Slight movement during exposure is often the cause of serious degradation of 
 image quality, although photographers often seem to prefer to blame their 
 equipment, usually criticizing the lens quality!", Ansel Adams, THE CAMERA.
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