What part of INN is responsible for sending IHAVE?

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi all,

First, apologies for the misleading subject line.

I meant to write "why is article propogation failing?".

Here are some facts I left out of the first message:

uname -a:

    SunOS sun06 5.6 Generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2

compiled with gcc 2.95.2.

The only `skanky' thing I did was link against libbind.a (see a
previous post of my about this).

We are using CNFS with tradindex.

Here is the scoop: we are receiving a feed from our ISP, but locally
posted articles (not local *newsgroups*) are not making back to our
ISP's news server (they happen to run Cyclone).

Someone answered my original question about which part of INN sends
IHAVEs: innfeed (or innxmit).  However, my truss output from a post I
did from my news client did not show an exec of innfeed.  Rather,
nnrpd took the POST'd article and wrote it out to the SM (or that is
what I led to believe), and then wrote to the nntpin socket, sending
an IHAVE to the main inn process.  After innd and nnrpd did their
dance, I got a return code of 235 (article successfully posted).  So,
once again, the article (and the overview data for the article) are
stored on our news server.  But the article is not making it upstream.
I know this because I can telnet to our ISP's server and send an IHAVE
<msg-id>, and I get a return code of 335 (send me your article, I
don't have it).

I have ruled out firewall issues, because we are receiving a feed,
and I can telnet out to the ISP's news server on port 119.

I have also ruled out linking against libbind.a, because all other
network functionality is there (post, receive, etc..., except sending
IHAVEs to the upstream news server).

What should I look for?  At this point, I don't what to do...

Thanks,

Tom


On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
>