From: MERC::"uunet!VM1.NoDak.EDU!ANU-NEWS" 25-APR-1992 10:59:28.25 To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS CC: Subj: Re: nntpd|cnews|anu-news help needed!! In article <1992Apr21.102430.39525@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.ed u (Bob Sloane) writes: > In article <1992Apr20.122336.2425@ducvax.auburn.edu>, > swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu writes: >> I am using a Vax running ANU-NEWS to feed a SUN Elc running cnews. All of >> this is being done via nntpd. The transfer works each time (or so it seems) >> but the -IHAVE (nntpd) processes on the SUN don't want to go away when the >> transfer is complete. > > The best way I have found for debugging things like this is to telnet > to the nntp socket and manually duplicate the problem. If you telnet > to the port, manually enter the ihave command, forge an article, and > then issue the quit command, and the nntpd process doesn't go away, > then I would suspect some sort of problem on the sun. If everything > works correctly, then the problem is probably in the ANU nntpxmit > program. Try the following (from the VMS system): > > $ TELNET sun.system.whatever > > 200 nntp server ready ... > ihave > 235 send article... > Path: system!user > Newsgroups: to.system > Subject: testing > From: > Date: 21 Apr 92 17:35:57 GMT > Lines: 1 > > Seeing how this works. > . > 335 ok... > quit > > If that works OK, then try using an upper case QUIT command and see if > that makes a difference. I seem to recall that the ANU nntpxmit uses > uppercase commands. If that is the problem, then it should be easy to > fix. If upper case commands work, then you will probably have to do > some debugging on the nntpxmit code to find out what is is doing > differently than the above. I tried your suggestions. First uppercase and lowercase don't seem to matter. If I telnet to port 119 on the server, both QUIT and quit work, from both a VAX and and SUN. Then I tried to manually duplicate the problem. I was able to do so! I entered the following commands on a SUN. Everything looks ok, except at the very end ("205 news closing connection. Goodbye.") the connection doesn't actually close. At this point, the SUN doesn't return to the user's prompt. (Since I have the same problem when connecting via the VAX, I don't think this is the fault of the VAX) telnet news 119 Trying 131.204.2.16 ... Connected to news.duc.auburn.edu. Escape character is '^]'. 201 news NNTP[auth] server version 1.5.11 (10 February 1991) ready at Fri Apr 24 09:14:43 1992 (no posting). ihave 335 Ok 235 send article Path: system!user Newsgroups: to.system Subject: testing From: Date: 24 Apr 92 17:35:57 CST Lines: 1 Testing, 1,2,3.