Limiting INN's NNRP connections per IP

[Alex Kiernan]

Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

> Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar <uhlar at fantomas.sk> writes:
> 
> > others answered. Now I have one question about nnrpd - can it take
> > advantage of running one master and slaves? shared active table, shared
> > configuration file, or at least that config is pre-processed by master
> > on startup and slaves only need to talk to user?
> 
> I believe that it does initialize the storage manager and overview only
> once, which can take a noticable amount of time.  I'm not sure, though;
> I've not looked at it recently.
> 

No they're each time (SetupDaemon() happens after the fork). One of
the problems I ran into moving them earlier (assuming a working pread
& history/overview/storage methods which use it) is that our error
recovery isn't very good if things change underneath us (so things
like files don't get reopened etc.).

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Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc