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From: JOHNSON@NORTHEASTERN.EDU (I am only an egg.)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: re -distribution problems
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Date: 1 Aug 89 16:41:00 GMT
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     >
     >> I just got this `pleasant' call from my news feed. He said, "Did you
     >> know that you're sending me everything I send you?"
     >>
     >> Can someone give me an example news.sys for an end node, i.e., a node
     >> that gets a feed but doesn't feed anyone. I can't seem to figure out
     >> how to send my feed only the news generated locally.
     >
     >It sounds like the system name specified in the NEWS.SYS
     >file doesn't match what is in the Path: header from your
     >feed.  Normally NEWS doesn't send articles back to the
     >system they came from.  Look at a message from the system
     >having the problem.  Whatever is before the first "!" in the
     >Path: header is what you have to put in the NEWS.SYS file.
     >If this is already correct, I would need to see your
     >NEWS.SYS, NEWS.DISTRIBUTION and a sample message file to
     >figure out what is going on.
     >
     
     I'm having the same problem.  Everything I get is sent back.  I'm
getting my feed from two nodes, mintaka and bloom-beacon.  I seem to be
sending everything back to mintaka for some reason.
     
     I don't understand the problem.  As I understand it, NEWS looks in
NEWS.DISTRIBUTION for a left-hand part the matches the Path: field,
grabs any right-hand parts and looks them up in NEWS.SYS thus finding
where to write the Message-Id: list.  Files are written for both helios
and mintaka with identical message id lists in them even though mintaka
does not appear on a right-hand side in NEWS.DISTRIBUTION.  I'm confused.
     
Here are the entries in my NEWS.DISTRIBUTION file.
     
#
nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu     helios.northeastern.edu
#
mintaka.lcs.mit.edu            helios.northeastern.edu
bloom-beacon.mit.edu            helios.northeastern.edu
     
Here is the NEWS.SYS file.
     
nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu:alt,athena,ba,bionet,comp,control,\
ddn,general,gnu,junk,misc,mit,ne,news,nu,pubnet,rec,sci,soc,\
talk,to,unix-pc,usrgroup,windows::
#
mintaka.lcs.mit.edu:alt,athena,ba,bionet,comp,control,\
ddn,general,gnu,junk,misc,mit,ne,news,nu,pubnet,rec,sci,soc,\
talk,to,unix-pc,usrgroup,windows:N:news_manager_dev:[nntp_tcp]mintaka.ids
#
helios.northeastern.edu:alt,athena,ba,bionet,comp,control,\
ddn,general,gnu,junk,misc,mit,ne,news,nu,pubnet,rec,sci,soc,\
talk,to,unix-pc,usrgroup,windows:N:news_manager_dev:[nntp_tcp]helios.ids
     
     
Chris Johnson
confused ANU-NEWSer
Northeastern University