What part of INN is responsible for sending IHAVE?

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi all,

Some background:

I installed the 1999/12/28 snapshot of 2.3, and since shortly after
then, I haven't seen messages propogated out to the 'net (today is my
first day back, and the regular sysadmins have mostly left news up to
me).

Anyway, we tried tcpdump (the dump of which we ran through ethereal),
and we didn't see outgoing connections to our ISP's news server.
I.e., whenever there was an article to be sent upstream, we weren't
sending IHAVEs to them.

Ugh.

I did a truss on on the innd and nnrpd processes, and rapidly
discovered that innd is listening on the socket ~news/run/nntpin, and
nnrpd writes to this socket.  So of course, I was seeing IHAVEs in my
trusses, because nnrpd was writing out to ~news/run/nntpin whenever I
posted to the server using my Macintosh news client (please, no flames
;)

The upshot of the above paragraph is that I do see the messages in our
local "stash" of news articles.

But they aren't being propogated upstream.

I have looked over the appropriate config files (newsfeeds, inn.conf,
innfeed.conf), and things look kosher there (they were working before,
and I just mades mods for overchan [WnteO instead of WntO], etc...)

What other kind of debugging can I do?  I have to get the syslog stuff
set up, but somehow, I doubt even that is going to help...


Thanks,

Tom