Re: Usenet Gateway down.... for two weeks

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> Is there any kind of test we could put in place to make sure this
> doesn't happen again? I mean I can't remember a single day in the last
> 5 years that hackers didn't get at least one message.

The only thing think of is to do something like:

# telnet localhost nntp
Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 news.hub.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.3 ready (posting ok).
GROUP pgsql.hackers
211 48254 37 48358 pgsql.hackers

Now, that said, not sure what the numbers mean ... 48358 is the latest, and 37 
is the oldest article number based on the active file ... not sure what the 
211/48254 are though ...

The problem is that 38358 will increment if a posting comes in from the 
Internet itself, so you can't just check for that to increase, you'd have to 
take a look at the Path in the header of the article itself, and look for:

Path: news.hub.org!postgresql.org!pgsql-hackers-owner+m114209

which translates as news.hub.org received from postgresql.org ...


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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email . scrappy@hub.org                              MSN . scrappy@hub.org
Yahoo . yscrappy               Skype: hub.org        ICQ . 7615664
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