Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz!mark From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: strange NNTP behaviour Message-ID: <1990Feb14.010521.23324@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 14 Feb 90 01:05:21 GMT Sender: news@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand. Lines: 26 Another anu news question from someone experiencing it from the outside. We feed a VMS site via NNTP. We recently switched the site here that we feed them from but at the time of the switch had a largish backlog for them on the old machine (call it host1) so let it continue feeding the backlog up while normal communication went via the new machine (host2). Now the stuff sent by host1 did not have host2 in the path so the VMS site queued up these messages to be sent to host2 -- fair enough, now the strange part -- When sending the messages to host2 the VMS NNTP should do an ihave for each one and only send it if host2 hasn't already seen the message. In the above case host2 has already received all the messages direct from host1 so none should actually be sent from the VMS machine, however a large number, if not all, are being sent (only to be rejected as duplicates when they are actually feed into the news system). Has anyone else observed this? know how to stop it happening? The vms machine is running ANU news 5.9c I think. We are running nntp1.5.7. cheers mark -- mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz | ...!uunet!vuwcomp!mark | DEV_BSIZE forever!