Neews to accomodate multiple news servers from uu.net

The Doctor doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Sat Nov 10 22:46:31 UTC 2007


On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:01:56PM +0100, Alexander Bartolich wrote:
> 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.
>

What if they change the class C for news servers?
 
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