Re: [leafnode-list] Shifting news servers

[krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel)]

David Given wrote:

> My company's just changed its ISP from Demon to TELE2. As a result, the news 
> server's changed, too.
> 
> Now, from what I gather, the thing to do when changing news feeds is to roll 
> back the database a couple of days and do another database sync. The rollback 
> prevents missing articles due to propagation delays.

Yup.

> Is this the right thing to do with Leafnode? If so, how do I do it?

Use the -x option with fetch. This is actually not too clever because
the amount of rollback needed depends on the traffic per group; therefore,
a rollback of 100 articles will be ample in a group with little traffic
but barely enough in a high-traffic group. However, setting maxage to
something sensible as well will prevent the worst, i.e. getting really
outdated articles.

--Cornelius.

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