David.Smith@esa.int writes: Have you solved this problem yet? > I'm trying to set up a News infrastructure with one main NNTPCache server > taking a feed from an external source (our ISP) and four site NNTPCache > servers feeding off that. At the moment I have one NNTPCache server > (version 2.4.0b5) taking a feed from our organisation's main news server. > That seems to be working fine, but when I try to point another NNTPCache > server at that, to prove that I can cascade servers, the second server > just sits there and when I telnet to port 119 I get the message: > > "failing server rebuild in progress (0 groups complete, at least 3000 > groups to go. Please try again later." > > I am assuming I have not configured something correctly. The only > difference between the two systems is that the second machine (esacom71) > has its nntpcache.servers file pointing to the first cache server (cs71) > which, in turn, is pointing to our site news server. > > Any and all advice gratefully received. > > Dave Smith > > > > -- >"People make their own history, but they do not make it just as they >please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, >but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted >from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a >nightmare on the brain of the living."
