Help me understand this innreport

Paul Tomblin ptomblin at xcski.com
Sat Sep 18 12:31:45 UTC 1999


The innreport on http://freenet9.carleton.ca/~news/ shows some very strange
behaviour.  That site was one major feed (from freenet-news.carleton.ca) and
one minor one of only a few groups (from xcski.com).  xcski.com and freenet9
are both running inn 2.2.1 using innfeed to feed each other, and other people.
freenet-news is running inn 1.4 and feeds using nntpsend.  Here's the part I
don't understand about freenet9:

On a typical day, it reports as incoming feeds:
Host            offered taken
freenet-news    97921   91792
xcski.com        6924    6921

But for outgoing feeds, it reports:
freenet-news   405368    2062
xcski.com          58       0

Why would it be offering to freenet-news 4.5 times as many articles as it's
accepted?  Especially since I checked newsfeeds, and it has the correct path
aliases, and I checked log/news and it shows that articles coming in from
freenet-news are only being fed to crosspost and overview, usually.  (some are
going to xcski.com as well)

Here are the relevant parts of etc/newsfeeds:
#       feed back to the real freenet-news
freenet-news/freenet-news.carleton.ca,freenet.carleton.ca:\
        ncf.*,ott.*,can.*,comp.*,news.*,talk.*,rec.*,soc.*,misc.*,sci.*:\
        Tm:innfeed!

#       xcski.com.      Paul Tomblin    (ptomblin at xcski.com)
xcski.com/piper.xcski.com,canoe.xcski.com,stratus.xcski.com:\
        alt.folklore*,alt.humor.best-of-usenet,comp.infosystems.gis,\
        comp.os.linux.*,comp.society.folklore,rec.humor.funn*,\
        news.*,comp.lang.c.moderated,wny.*,rec.aviation.*,\
        comp.lang.c++.moderated,rec.games.video.nintendo,\
        alt.tv.lois-n-clar*,alt.sysadmin.recovery,\
        rec.music.beatle*,alt.wedding,soc.couples.wedding,\
        alt.support.step-parents,alt.support.divorce,\
        comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.gui,\
        rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc,alt.newlywed,\
        rec.pets.birds,alt.pets.parrots.cockatiels,alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer,\
        comp.mail.mutt,rec.music.artists.paul-mccartney,!news.lists.filters,\
        !ncf.*,!control.newgroup/!local,!ncf:Tm:innfeed!

# Innfeed funnel master; individual peers feed into the funnel.
# Note that innfeed with "-y" and no peer in innfeed.conf
# would cause a problem that innfeed drops the first article.
innfeed!:\
        !*,\
        :Tc,Wnm*,S30000:/usr/lib/news/bin/startinnfeed

And the relevant parts of etc/innfeed.conf
##
## Peers.
##
peer freenet-news {
        ip-name:                freenet-news.carleton.ca
}

peer xcski.com {
        ip-name:                xcski.com
        max-connections:        10
}

-- 
Paul Tomblin, not speaking for anybody.
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