Thanks to everyone who went above and beyond to try to ease my forced move to news admin. In case you were still puzzled by my server losing 90% of the feed, here's the gory details on the resolution. Assuming the worst of the previous admin, I wiped the server and completely reinstalled the OS and DNEWs. It had no effect other than teach me a bit more about what to look for. I then added an access list to our backbone router to log any traffic bound for the news server. Once I found no evidence of a news feed there, I was confident in my configs and pushed the matter back to Sprint. After a few hours of muddling around, they "remembered" that about 2 weeks ago, they: 1. Added several new servers to their news farm. 9 more to the feed we use. 2. Moved the primary feed duties to one of the new servers. 3. Porked the reverse DNS, so nslookups wouldn't show the change. 4. Didn't update their website listing the "required" server IPs. 5. Didn't notify us of any required changes on our side. After sorting out all those details, it became obvious that all I needed to do was include the new IPs for the feed in the access.conf. That completed and "Presto!", we have a news feed. Thanks again to all those who beat their heads against this problem for me. The collective support of this group and the Netwinsite staff is top notch. I'm prepared now to push my bosses for a better feed provider, so if anyone has a recommendation or product, please send me some info off list. Include as many server specs and pricing options as possible. cheers, -- =============================================== Kip Turk phone: 915.234.5678 Systems Administrator or 800.695.9016 Killer of Spam/Writer of Code/Penguin Proponent West Central Net fax: 915.656.0071 ===============================================
