INN hangs posts with attachment---Problem Resolved

[Praveen Ramaswamy]

Hi,

I could resolve the problem by changing the Ethernet card on the news
server. Actually there is bug in Broadcom 5700 LAN card driver for Linux
with respect to speed auto negotiation. There is a patch available for this
but it did not help, so I replaced the card with DLink card and it works
like charm.
I could figure out this when I tried to FTP a small file to news server and
it took 67 sec from one PC and it took only 0.36 sec from other PC, then on
news server I checked eth0 statistics with ifconfig it showed error 130, so
with this I could figure out the actual problem. 

I just thought I should let you know the details; after all I have troubled
you guys so much.

Best regards
Praveen R


-----Original Message-----
From: inn-workers-bounce at isc.org [mailto:inn-workers-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Praveen Ramaswamy
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 9:05 PM
To: inn-workers at isc.org
Subject: RE: INN hangs posts with attachment

Hi,
Problem Description renewed:

>From some PCs it is very slow when uploading posts with attachments
irrespective of attachment size and irrespective of news client used. But
just plain text posting works fine.

>From some PCs everything works fine including uploading of attachments.

I think I messed up earlier by doing too many things at once. I hope I am
not confusing you further.


I am enclosing two log files from working and non working PCs (I have used
outlook express 6 on both PC, This is outlook express generated log on the
client not server). Please go through the same. Result is same for all
attachment size.

Also I am enclosing my INN.conf file so that you can tell me if something is
wrong.

Yes! using telnet server 119 is the best way to test, but I don't know from
where I should copy and paste UU-code. Please help, sorry to ask such silly
thing but I don't know.

In news.notice I found "PERL filtering Enabled" I disabled it by typing
"ctlinnd perl n" but it did not help. Not sure if this way to do.

Regards
Praveen R


-----Original Message-----
From: inn-workers-bounce at isc.org [mailto:inn-workers-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Pavel V. Knyazev
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 6:02 PM
To: inn-workers at isc.org
Subject: Re: INN hangs posts with attachment

> What happens if you try posting a tiny attachment?  How about a medium
> sized attachment?

For testing purposes i'd try to use a very simple NNTP client, a so called 
telnet :-) It's not so hard to cut&paste the UU-codes.

> -- 
> Jeffrey M. Vinocur
> jeff at litech.org

--
Pavel V. Knyazev




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Microsoft Internet Messaging API 6.00.2800.1441
NNTP Log started at 01/21/2005 20:13:41
NNTP: 20:13:41 [db] Connecting to 'news' on port 119.
NNTP: 20:13:41 [db] srv_name = "news" srv_addr = 15.10.42.102
NNTP: 20:13:41 [rx] 200 news.india.hp.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1
ready (posting ok).
NNTP: 20:13:41 [tx] MODE READER
NNTP: 20:13:41 [rx] 200 news.india.hp.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1
ready (posting ok).
NNTP: 20:13:41 [tx] GROUP hpiso.test
NNTP: 20:13:41 [rx] 211 190 136 1147 hpiso.test
NNTP: 20:13:41 [tx] XOVER 1147-1147
NNTP: 20:13:41 [rx] 224 1147-1147 fields follow

Microsoft Internet Messaging API 6.00.2800.1441
NNTP Log started at 01/21/2005 20:14:15
NNTP: 20:14:15 [db] Connecting to 'news' on port 119.
NNTP: 20:14:15 [rx] 200 news.india.hp.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1
ready (posting ok).
NNTP: 20:14:15 [tx] MODE READER
NNTP: 20:14:15 [rx] 200 news.india.hp.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1
ready (posting ok).
NNTP: 20:14:15 [tx] POST
NNTP: 20:14:15 [rx] 340 Ok, recommended ID <csr492$830$1 at news.india.hp.com>
NNTP: 20:14:16 [tx] 
.
NNTP: 20:14:16 [rx] 240 Article posted <csr492$830$1 at news.india.hp.com>
NNTP: 20:14:16 [db] Connection to '' closed.

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-- File: not-working.txt

Microsoft Internet Messaging API 6.00.2800.1441
NNTP Log started at 01/21/2005 20:08:19
NNTP: 20:08:19 [db] Connecting to 'news.india.hp.com' on port 119.
NNTP: 20:08:19 [db] srv_name = "news.india.hp.com" srv_addr = 15.10.42.102
NNTP: 20:08:19 [rx] 200 news.india.hp.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1
ready (posting ok).
NNTP: 20:08:19 [tx] MODE READER
NNTP: 20:08:19 [rx] 200 news.india.hp.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1
ready (posting ok).
NNTP: 20:08:19 [tx] GROUP hpiso.test
NNTP: 20:08:19 [rx] 211 190 136 1147 hpiso.test

Microsoft Internet Messaging API 6.00.2800.1441
NNTP Log started at 01/21/2005 20:08:38
NNTP: 20:08:38 [db] Connecting to 'news.india.hp.com' on port 119.
NNTP: 20:08:38 [rx] 200 news.india.hp.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1
ready (posting ok).
NNTP: 20:08:38 [tx] MODE READER
NNTP: 20:08:38 [rx] 200 news.india.hp.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1
ready (posting ok).
NNTP: 20:08:38 [tx] POST
NNTP: 20:08:38 [rx] 340 Ok, recommended ID <csr3uh$7tp$1 at news.india.hp.com>
NNTP: 20:10:39 [db] Connection to '' closed.
NNTP: 20:11:31 [tx] 
.
NNTP: 20:11:36 [rx] 240 Article posted <csr3uh$7tp$1 at news.india.hp.com>
NNTP: 20:11:36 [db] Connection to '' closed.

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