Re: tin ends abruptly

Christian Knoke wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 07:03:50PM +0100, Dirk Nimmich wrote:
> > In the subject you write tin "ends abruptly". Above you describe
> > this as "stops". What exactly does this mean? Is tin returning to
> > the shell prompt, or does it seem do nothing? Are you sure it is not
> > reading in overview information from the group you try to enter?
> 
> "ends abruptly" means return to the shell prompt. It doesn't do anything
> else, no output, no Sig11. It's not reading anything from the server.

That's because of the response your server send (see below).

> 200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.9.19 running at bolte.at.home

Before doing anything else, please upgrade this ancient version of
Leafnode. It has numerous bugs, including security related ones. If
the problem persists, report back and I'll have a closer look.

> Now we are coming to the meat. The rather old version of leafnode seems to
> throw a core few seconds before tin terminates:

Well, then ... another reason to upgrade.

> Mar 28 14:48:14 bolte leafnode[5571]: <XOVER 2467-2766
> Mar 28 14:48:14 bolte leafnode[5571]: >224 Overview information for postings 2467-2766:
> Mar 28 14:48:14 bolte leafnode[5571]: >400 Service discontinued
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is the main offense. This is an unexpected response, and tins
reaction is to stop running (continue to run wouldn't even help in
this case). Servers should never send a response code without being
asked to do anything.


(And while you are at it, you may consider to give your computer a
real name. home is no valid TLD. invalid is, however, if that's what
you are looking for. But I wonder why you don't use your cknoke.de
domain; that's what domains are for, aren't they?)