News client reports error after posting message to INN 1.4

[Chee Choon Cheng]

Hi,

I am using INN version 1.4. When I post news using Outlook Express, OE
always reports that an error occurred when posting to the news server.
However, the posting actually went out OK. If I use Netscape or Free Agent
to post a new message, no error reported. But if I use either one to reply
to an existing news posting, the news client reported some errors again.
This is a consistent and reproduceble problem.

I did a sniff on the network and found that the news clients reported error
because they did not receive the "240 article posted" message from the
server before the TCP connection is closed. So the clients thought the post
was not successful.

The following is the initial greeting from the server indicating the version
I am using:
200 xxx.xxx.xxx InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.4 20-Mar-93 ready (posting
ok).


Has anyone encountered similar problems before?



Chee