Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!opusc!ken
From: ken@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Sallenger)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: SCO Bnews, C News, and ihave/sendme woes
Summary: Use care, consider alternatives
Keywords: careful nntpxmit nntpxfer
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.142640.23476@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 91 14:26:40 GMT
References: <315@lccinc.UUCP> <3130@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1991Jan16.182335.4237@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia
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In article <1991Jan16.182335.4237@zoo.toronto.edu> Henry writes:
=> 
=> Works fine for us, and for many people around here.  It does take very
=> careful attention to the documentation and examples; trying to "wing it"
=> will not work.

Yup.  We feed a cross-campus site, and I failed to get the suggested setup
to work---largely because I was never able to sit down with my opposite
number and hack through it.  I'm reasonably sure that we'll work it out
eventually.

We _are_ successfully feeding them with the nntpxmit program included
with the NNTP distribution.  This is not batched :-( but it works and
was straightforward to set up from one end.  Lack of batching is not
killing us at the moment because the WAN connection is new and lightly
used.

We also had some success with nntpxfer (also from the NNTP dist), set up
from the receiving end.  This failed when I broke the NNTP server on
this end, which is another story.

Both of these programs poke the NNTP daemon on the other machine.  Xmit
sends an ihave for each of a list of articles, which relaynews has saved;
the other end's nntpd then accepts/rejects it, and it's sent automagically.
Xfer (on the receiving end) asks the sender's nntpd for a list of new
articles since a specified time (of which the receiver keeps track),
and then issues sendme's for those which it wants.  This is all a bit
slow, working on a per-article basis.  But on our lightly loaded net,
it works well.

			*	*	*

Let me add my thanks to the Henry and Geoff for a mind-bogglingly useful
package.  Our aging VAX-11/750 breathed a huge sigh of relief when we
finished setting up C-news.

Thanks also for the remarkable care and alacrity with which they respond
to our (sometimes dumb) questions in this forum!  Even when it's just
"Yup, that should work: try it again." [Thanks, Henry.  It did :-]
-- 
     Ken Sallenger / ken@bigbird.csd.scarolina.edu / +1 803 777-6551
     Computer Services Division / 1244 Blossom ST / Columbia, SC 29208