Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!otc!metro!basser!usage!ccadfa!anucsd!csc3!csc!gih900 From: gih900@csc.anu.oz (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: Need help getting an Ultrix host to send us news items Message-ID: <645@csc.anu.oz> Date: 21 Aug 89 12:26:55 GMT References: Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University Lines: 27 In article , 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 . >>>> . >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