ietf-nntp MODE READER

[Russ Allbery]

Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou at nec.co.jp> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote;

>> INN's return codes for service temporarily unavailable currently are
>> not compliant with this draft.  In this case, I believe that the draft
>> is right and INN is wrong.

> Could you point where it is?

In RCreader, line 510 or thereabouts.  We return 504 or 505 in various
circumstances and I think that's supposed to be 400 in both cases.  I
think we might also be returning 503 in various places where we shouldn't,
but I've not looked at it in detail yet.

> btw, if innd is set up not to allow readers, we've got;

> # telnet localhost nntp
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 200 server InterNetNews server INN 2.3.0 (20000711 CVS prerelease) ready
> mode reader
> 500 Syntax error or bad command

> This is not compliant that draft also, and I think this
> needs to be fixed to return 502.

Agreed.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>