> > What kind of ISP does this?! Have you confirmed by two concurrent > > telnets to the isp's nntp port? Can you get the ISP to change their policy? > > Most large ISPs do for their corporate accounts. It was only > intended to feed a nntp server in our local sub domain. Since the same > machine serves a lot different corporate sites they (PSI) want to reduce the > load by transfering the local handling of news to the customer. It makes > sense, and nntpcache .88 did just that for us, with some minor problems > that were getting annoying. This is a simple matter of closing the update socket, instead of caching it, but updates will fail if someone is reading uncached news and visa-versa. -- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff@suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | C7F81C2AA32D7D4E4D360A2ED2098E0D | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+
