Try this setting in dnews.conf, it 'might' help it deal with this.
pull false
ChrisP.
At 08:43 PM 6/28/02 +0000, you wrote:
> >I have been working with this for 2 days and I can't get any articles
> >to come down with the SUCK feeds I have set up. I have 3 different
> >providers. I ahve tried all 3 as the NNTP feeder. I have tried * in
> >the ME and
> >SUCK groups. I have tried expiring, getold, force SUCK. Nothing
> >works.
>
>I can get the group names fine. I am not having any problems
>connecting to the
> >various news servers. DNews just does not want to get any articles.
> >I have set
> >it for 10 minute refreshes and left it overnight and nothing came down.
> >
> >I am running on a freshly built Win2000 Pro (SP2), I have tried both
> >5.5b5 and 5.5h2 with the exact same problem.
> >
> >Below is a copy of my dnews.conf file. I have put XXXXXXXX to hide
> >usernames/passwords/groups.
> >
> >Please help .. this is driving me nuts !!
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Ed
> >
> >
> >
> ># myname must translate to this hosts ip address
> >myname dnews
> ># path_stamp goes into the Path: header to stop loops etc
> >path_stamp dnews.
> ># Sucking settings
> >nntp_feeder basic.bs.webusenet.com alt.binaries.XXXXXX.XXXXX
>
>I see the problem here. Bellsouth uses WUN AKA UsenetServer for their
>news provider. These folks are notorious for arbitrarily renumbering
>articles whenever they feel like it and this breaks Dnews sucking.
>
>If you telnet to the server, select one of the groups you are having
>problems with, and xover it, you'll see how they have borked the
>article numbering. Here's an example. The first line is from the WUN
>server, the second from one that doesn't do this. Note the third
>number being huge compared to the second on line one.
>
>3992 48281 161948 bellsouth.net.support.adsl
>540 31231 31770 bellsouth.net.support.adsl
>
>Here is a snippet of the denws.log. You can see this if you set
>loglevel to warn. Dnews can't find any articles because it's looking
>for an article number that doesn't really exist.
>
>28 16:35:00.791 1:warn: pull: [1] news.xxxxxxxxx.com
>bellsouth.net.support.adsl:161948 Pulling from 161948 to 161948 (up to
>1 new)
>28 16:35:00.856 1:info: pull: [1] news.xxxxxxxx.com
>bellsouth.net.support.adsl:161948 Missing article news.dsli.com
>bellsouth.net.support.adsl 423 No Such Article In Group
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