Neews to accomodate multiple news servers from uu.net

Alexander Bartolich alexander.bartolich at gmx.at
Sat Nov 10 21:01:56 UTC 2007


The Doctor wrote:
> [...]
> Well news.uu.net in the USA has moved to distriuted NNTP distribution
> and what their customers to move to 198.6.0.0/24 .

Well, it's simple to create a list of all 256 addresses:

seq 0 1 255 | xargs printf "198.6.0.%d, "

> I got a news0905.news.uu.net and news0906.news.uu.net .

That's exactly two host names making two entries in incoming.conf
If these names are rotated then you need to let innd resolve the
new value.

ctlinnd -t 300 -s reload incoming.conf "flush cache"

> This fix is needed right away as some ofthe big distributors
> can move in that direction.
> 
> IF we can only get incoming.conf to adjust accordingly.

I still don't understand the problem.

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