News Groups are empty

[Andy Malato]

Thanks for your help, it turned out that there was nothing wrong with the
configuration, the issue was with networks not configuring the firewall to
allow the upstream to pass traffic to our host.



On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Andy Malato wrote:
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> > My situation is that when I try to read news using any news client, after
> > subscribing to a news group, the group is opened with 0 messages, in other
> > words the group is empty.  I know our news feed was just recently set up,
> > so I don't know if this is a problem on the side of the ISP in which we
> > get our feed from.
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> The only lines that interest you in news.notice are the "innd" ones, which
> don't indicate that your upstream has connected at all.  Any article
> offered by your upstream will get a line in ~news/log/news, so check there
> as well.
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> If you've configured the news crontab properly,  you should be getting
> nightly email reports indicating how many articles are being offered,
> accepted, rejected, etc from each incoming host.
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> --
> Jeffrey M. Vinocur
> jeff at litech.org
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