Re: [leafnode-list] Fetchnews getting list of all newsgroups

[Alec Cawley <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 05 January 2002 12:56 am, you wrote:
> Alec Cawley schrieb am Freitag, den 04. Januar 2002:
> > Closer examination of the output says
> > "Getting new newsgroups from news.demon.co.uk"
> > But the list still takes many minutes to load at 44000bps (12 so far this
> > evening). Have I got a configuration problem with the upstream server?
> > There are surely not that many new newsgroups since yesterday evening.
> > How are "new" newsgroups determined?
>
> Does that problem occur on other servers than news.demon.co.uk? Might be
> that demon became incompatible again.
>
> Can you have the NNTP dialogue logged (either with the proper debugmode
> or with ngrep or other packet capture/dissemination tools) and figure
> what exact NEWGROUPS command leafnode sends to news.demon.co.uk?

Here is the debugmode log. I know Usenet is growing fast, but 231 groups in 
2.5 hours seems too much to me. Is this a problem I should complain about to 
demon?

Log Follows:

Jan  5 15:47:08 localhost fetchnews[1453]: 1.9.19: verbosity level is 0
Jan  5 15:47:08 localhost fetchnews[1453]: config: debugmode is 1
Jan  5 15:47:08 localhost fetchnews[1453]: config: server is news.demon.co.uk
Jan  5 15:47:08 localhost fetchnews[1453]: config: expire is 20 days
Jan  5 15:47:08 localhost fetchnews[1453]: config: crosspostlimit is 3 groups
Jan  5 15:47:08 localhost fetchnews[1453]: config: maxage is 10
Jan  5 15:47:08 localhost fetchnews[1453]: config: postings have max. 1000 
linesJan  5 15:47:08 localhost fetchnews[1453]: config: postings have max. 
50000 bytes
Jan  5 15:47:08 localhost fetchnews[1453]: config: timeout_active is 365 days
Jan  5 15:47:08 localhost fetchnews[1453]: Last LIST ACTIVE done 6641879 
seconds ago: NEWGROUPS
Jan  5 15:47:23 localhost fetchnews[1453]: <200 news.demon.co.uk NewsBorg 
[nnrp-10]
Jan  5 15:47:23 localhost fetchnews[1453]: connected to 158.152.254.74: 200
Jan  5 15:47:23 localhost fetchnews[1453]: >MODE READER^M
Jan  5 15:47:23 localhost fetchnews[1453]: <200 news.demon.co.uk NewsBorg 
[nnrp-10]
Jan  5 15:47:23 localhost fetchnews[1453]: >NEWGROUPS 020105 131300 GMT^M
Jan  5 15:47:29 localhost fetchnews[1453]: <231 new groups since Sat, 05 Jan 
2002 13:13:00 GMT
Jan  5 15:47:29 localhost fetchnews[1453]: <.
Jan  5 15:47:29 localhost fetchnews[1453]: Read server info from 
/var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.demon.co.uk


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