RE: [leafnode-list] RELIABILITY ANNOUNCEMENT: leafnode 2.0b*

["john burton" <jburton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For those of us running v2.0b8 should we retrofit, or will there be a 'fix'
out shortly?

Frankly, I've not noticed the problem here, but of course, that doesn't mean
it hasn't happened....

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John Burton
Midwest City, Oklahoma
http://sxs.sandbox.dynip.com


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Matthias Andree [mailto:ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
 > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 15:23
 > To: leafnode-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 > Subject: [leafnode-list] RELIABILITY ANNOUNCEMENT: leafnode 2.0b*
 >
 >
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 > anything above this line is bogus
 >
 > *** RELIABILITY ANNOUNCEMENT ***
 >
 > Warning: all leafnode 2.0 alpha/beta versions that have been released on
 > March 12, 2000 or later up to and including 2.0b8 have a serious bug in
 > their dopost function in nntpd which handles receiving client's POSTs.
 >
 > Here's the offending change from the log:
 >
 > |120300: dopost(): articles are now immediately sorted into the spool.
 > |        This is achieved by fork()ing. nntpd ignores SIGCHLD therefore
 > |        (in main()).
 > |        One problem is that now fetchnews and the nntpd cannot be
 > |        run at the same time (?).
 >
 > The trouble is that leafnode no longer detects posting
 > failures. leafnode replies with 240 to the client's POST command
 > although the actual acticle may have been lost for whatever
 > reason. Thus, articles may disappear without notice to the client.
 >
 > As these articles cannot be recovered from other servers, this is a
 > serious bug. There is no known workaround at this moment.
 >
 > leafnode 1.9.18 and -ma4* are not affected by this bug.
 >
 > - --
 > Matthias Andree
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