Y2K-Bug in INN 1.x, 2.x

[Bettina Fink]

Per Hedeland <per at erix.ericsson.se> wrote:

> This patch, when applied to parsedate.y from INN-2.2 or 
> later (where only the first chunk "fits", the other two are
> already effectively in place...) breaks (some) handling of
> dates with two-digit years - I guess 00 gets treated as 1900
> rather than 2000, which it does with the original parsedate.y:
>
> Jan  3 22:54:07 news rnews: rejected 437 Bad "Date" header --
> "3 Jan 00 21:48:34 GMT"

Can't reproduce that on my system, injected an article with 
that date via rnews:

| Path: unlisys!news.snafu.de!not-for-mail
| Date: 3 Jan 00 21:48:34 GMT
| From: laura at hydrophil.de
| Newsgroups: de.test
| Subject: irgendwas (ignore)
| Message-ID: <20001205$1 at test.unlisys.net>
| Lines: 1

I have a lot of article coming in via rnews on my server, but 
all rejects I see are "100" and "2xxx" (future).

When writing the patch, we did some testing (POST):

  00 = Ok
  23 = Article posted in the future
  55 = Can't parse "Date" header
  71 = Too old
  99 = Ok
 100 = Can't parse "Date" header
1900 = Can't parse "Date" header
1969 = Can't parse "Date" header
1970 = Too old
2000 = Ok
2100 = Can't parse "Date" header

So that looks ok to me ...

Bye,
Bettina