> Well, I've tried 88.2 and trn still doesn't like it. The newgroup
> command returns an error (syslog logs it as a 'crazy flow error').
> In nntpcache.c:667 there is an '#ifdef 0' around the processing of
> the newnews, newgroups, and xgtitle commands. This causes these to
> fall through to the 'default' in the case statement which gives the
> error message to the reader and to syslog. As a quick hack I took
> out the ifdef and did a 'emitrn(".")' for that case. Trn now just
> warns about being unable to get the groups but continues. If I knew
> what the correct response was for no new groups I would use that
> instead.
I have written some code to do a proper multi-server newgroups command,
and it appears to work. It will be in the next release.
> Would it be possible to change the connection logging to include
> the IP address as well as the hostname, such as:
> 'connect from user@host.do.main(123.45.67.88)'
> as I think I (and a few other people) have occaisional DNS slowness
> that causes the 'connect from' to be empty, and an address would be
> better than nothing.
Shouldn't be a problem. I'll add it in.
> frank
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As for when the next release will be, that'll be when either Proff and/or
me has fixed some of the other reported bugs. When that'll be depends on how
hard some of these bugs are to fix :-\.
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Luke Bowker, puke@suburbia.net, puke@deakin.edu.au
Suburbia Public Access Network Site Sysadmin
"Don't try to understand. Knowing you, I'm probably wrong" - D. Mustaine
