At 11:55 AM 12/15/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>we have just recently switched to a new feed which is huge. We have no
>experience with this kind of large feeds but we notice that about 95%
>(rough figure) of the binary multi-part messages that arrive here are not
>complete. We are always missing parts.
>
>We are using anti-spam features of DNews and raised the default settings
>for max_from etc. and we are not using the filter.dat.
>
>Any hints? I am kinda stuck looking at the newsgroups here with no
>complete multipart posts...
Yes, first upgrade to dnews54j7, then if that doesn't fix the problem you
need to find out which of these things is wrong:
1) The feed itself has missing parts
2) Some of the feed is not getting to your system due to a
performance problem.
3) Your system is throwing away the items (spam rules etc)
Basically '2' is easy to find out, you ring up your feed site and ask if
you are dropping part of the feed, they will say yes or no. If they say
yes (after upgrading dnews as suggested above) then you need to figure out
if the reason is
1) Load on their system
2) Bandwidth limits between their system and your system
3) Load on dnews
4) Some kind of bug/fault somewhere
There is a FAQ entry in the manual regarding missing parts which will give
you some more details on things you should try.
Please feel free to get back to us with
tellnews status
tellnews stats
tellnews stats_in
dnews.conf
newsfeeds.conf
And we can probably help you figure out what the problem might be.
chrisP.
