Funnel_bad... can't find newsfeed server?

[Russ Allbery]

Shena Delian O'Brien <shena at darklock.com> writes:

> I'm moving a private (only about 8 groups) news server from one machine
> to the other. The new machine had INN already installed, so I just
> configured it to accept the newsfeed from the old machine, and send one
> in return so that while we're moving, the servers sync.

> The new server accepts the newsfeed just fine, only I can't figure out
> how to get it to get all the old archives messages. So that's question
> #1.

See <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html#S6.4>.

> The new server will not send a newsfeed to the old server. The error
> message in news.crit is that the new server is a funnel_bad.

You probably have a syntax error in your newsfeeds file.  Could you mail
your newsfeeds file on the new server to the list?

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