Re: [leafnode-list] Can't get news from alternate server

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>]

Paolo Amoroso schrieb am 2003-09-22:

> ## This is another news server which stores some groups that are not
> ## available on the first one. You can define username, password and port
> ## for each server separately.
> server = forum.mclink.it
> username = Username
> password = PassWd

Two more things:

#1 add

nodesc = 1

below the "server = forum.mclink.it" line.

#2 here's a patch against 1.9.43 that allows leafnode to be used on
servers that are broken like this:

Index: fetchnews.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/CVS/leafnode-1/fetchnews.c,v
retrieving revision 1.115
diff -u -r1.115 fetchnews.c
--- fetchnews.c	21 Sep 2003 17:21:03 -0000	1.115
+++ fetchnews.c	23 Sep 2003 02:48:07 -0000
@@ -1424,7 +1424,11 @@
 		       "%Y%m%d %H%M00", gmtime(&update));
 	xsnprintf(lineout, SIZE_lineout, "NEWGROUPS %s GMT\r\n", timestr + 2);
 	putaline();
-	if (nntpreply() != 231) {
+	/* we used to expect 231 here, but some broken servers (MC-link
+	 * Custom News-server V1.06) return 215 instead.
+	 * Just accept any 2XX code as success.
+	 */
+	if ((reply = nntpreply()) < 200 || reply >= 300) {
 	    char *e = lastreply();
 	    if (!e) e = "premature disconnect";
 	    printf("Reading new newsgroups failed, reason \"%s\".\n", e);

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