On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 08:54:13PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > With lore.kernel.org now 3 different nodes with failover, I'm curious if > > it's > > safe to point the NNTP server at that as well. I'm assuming that article > > numbers are going to be the same across all three systems, but I wanted to > > double-check that it's the case. I.e., if node1 goes down and DNS shifts to > > point at node2, will that mess up nntp access, or is that okay? What about > > imap? > > Likely, it depends on how picky NNTP clients are. The one thing > that could differ is the "created_at" field in msgmap.sqlite3. > > created_at probably affects IMAP more (UIDVALIDITY), though; and > I know some IMAP synchronization tools get picky about that.
Is that value taken from git repos, or generated during indexing? All 3 nodes replicating from the same set of sources, but they do indeed run the index hooks at slightly different times. -K
