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Re: [leafnode-list] Can't get leafnode to work with news servers that work with clients.
On Thursday 09 June 2005 23:40, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > I've increased the cron fetchnews from once to three times an hour,
> > and it seems to be getting a greater proportion of the news now. I
> > may increase it again and see how it goes.
>
> Are you filtering ICMP traffic on a firewall, router or via packet
> filter rules; particularly on lines with MTU lower than the default
> MTU of your network interface (PPP over Ethernet!) or congested
> lines?
I don't think so, but I'll look into it in more detail. I have a NAT
router that (as I believe I have it configured) just blocks connections
from "outside" to servers running on the LAN (except for specified LAN
IP and port combinations).
> If so, make sure that PMTU discovery (PMTU = Path MTU, MTU = Maximum
> Transfer Unit, think "supported packet size") works (there are web
> sites on this topic, these should list which ICMP traffic you need to
> allow).
I'll check on this.
Something I've just noticed is that the timeouts seemed to occur mainly
in certain newsgroups. I've manually deleted those
from /var/spool/news/interesting.groups and performance seems to have
improved. When I think leafnode has caught up with the others I'll try
putting them back into use, one at a time.
Thanks,
Adam
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