Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!bcm!tmc.edu!sob From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: NNTPD hates Message-IDs with TWO '@'s in them. (BIG log file attached to this posting) Keywords: message-id nntpd duplicate Message-ID: <5930@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Date: 10 Jun 91 12:17:08 GMT References: <1991Jun9.232828.17956@europa.asd.contel.com> Sender: usenet@bcm.tmc.edu Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: tmc.edu In article <1991Jun9.232828.17956@europa.asd.contel.com> enger@seka.scc.com writes: >I found that my site is having difficulty handling a strange message-id that >contains TWO '@' characters. (At least I think that's what's upsetting it!) Any message id with two '@'s in it is illegal. NNTP 1.5 does not process illegal messages ids very well. >We apparently received and correctly processed the article about two days ago. One might argue that if Cnews throws away articles with bad dates, why doesn't it throw away articles with bad Message-ids? >Today, a different site has been attempting to send us the article over >and over and over again. This must be a bug in the sending software. Since nntpxmit and nntplink are the most common, I have looked at nntpxmit and find that if installed as shipped, it only cares the if the message-id has angle brackets around it. >Any guidance on how to patch things so that my site correctly handles this >message ID would be greatly appreciated. If this is some old problem that >is well known to others I appologize in advance for taking up everyone's time. I will add it to the bug list for consideration in the next release of NNTP. I would like to hear if the CNEWS guys have a response to my question posed above since that would also address the problem. -- Stan internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu Director, Networking Olan uucp: rutgers!bcm!sob and Systems Support Barber Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine