News service issues
Mark Lowes
In article <32d2b...@muir-et2.staff.demon.net>,
Malcolm Muir <inte...@demon.net> wrote:
[...]
> This was finally traced to an attempted abuse of the internet by
> someone using mars.usit.net to try posting an 84Mb article direct
> to our public news server.
> The offending article has been deleted and the backlog that resulted
> is slowly clearing.
Thanks for the report.
[...]
> Whilst it is currently possible to post multiple 1Mb articles, can I
[...]
Is this limit permanent (or at least semi-permanent)?
Mark
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Alan Grunwald
<Snip>
>The problem acknowledged a week ago - slow news collection by some
>newsreader software - has not been remedied at the current time.
>A software fix for this problem is currently under test, and once
>we are satisfied that this fix is operating correctly, we will
>announce rollout of it to the customer servers.
Thanks for the update Malcolm. A cure would be ideal, but in its absence
information on progress is very welcome. I hope that the fix currently
under test proves effective and look forward to an early, successful,
rollout.
--
Alan Grunwald
Definitely not Swedish.
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
[For obvious reasons, e-mailed to Malcolm as well; although perhaps the
lags won't be affecting him?]
In article <32d2b...@muir-et2.staff.demon.net>
inte...@demon.net "Malcolm Muir" writes:
> A problem was noted yesterday with a significant increase in the time
> taken for articles to become available on the customer and public
> news servers.
>
> This was finally traced to an attempted abuse of the internet by
> someone using mars.usit.net to try posting an 84Mb article direct
> to our public news server.
>
> The offending article has been deleted and the backlog that resulted
> is slowly clearing.
Was this abuse conducted via mail2news? I ask because there seems to be
an additional lag on that route, compared to POST/IHAVE injection (I
think: I am seeing my articles posted via mail2news appearing long after
others with earlier timestamps, that have presumably *not* gone the
mail2news route).
Is there any chance of a statement on the relative lags of POST/IHAVE vs.
mail2news posting?
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} b...@dsl.co.uk
Tony Blair's New Labour: The Windows'95 of Political Parties
(c/w Plug'n'Pray and a pretence of offering object-orientation)
Dave Weinstein
>A problem was noted yesterday with a significant increase in the time
>taken for articles to become available on the customer and public
>news servers.
>
>This was finally traced to an attempted abuse of the internet by
>someone using mars.usit.net to try posting an 84Mb article direct
>to our public news server.
>
>The offending article has been deleted and the backlog that resulted
>is slowly clearing.
>
>the article size that can be posted to the Demon News servers.
>
>Whilst it is currently possible to post multiple 1Mb articles, can I
>there is no guarantee that articles larger than 64Kb will propagate
>the internet outside Demon and that we reserve the right to further
>restrict the service to prevent such abuse should it become
>necessary.
>
>The problem acknowledged a week ago - slow news collection by some
>newsreader software - has not been remedied at the current time.
>A software fix for this problem is currently under test, and once
>we are satisfied that this fix is operating correctly, we will
>announce rollout of it to the customer servers.
>
>Demon Internet
>
Use pubnews.demon.co.uk until Demon fixes news.demon.co.uk
I just got news for the first time in 3 wks!
--
Dave Weinstein
Malcolm Muir
Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (b...@dsl.co.uk) wrote:
> [For obvious reasons, e-mailed to Malcolm as well; although perhaps the
> lags won't be affecting him?]
>
> In article <32d2b...@muir-et2.staff.demon.net>
>
> > A problem was noted yesterday with a significant increase in the time
> > taken for articles to become available on the customer and public
> > news servers.
> >
> > This was finally traced to an attempted abuse of the internet by
> > someone using mars.usit.net to try posting an 84Mb article direct
> > to our public news server.
> >
> > The offending article has been deleted and the backlog that resulted
> > is slowly clearing.
>
> an additional lag on that route, compared to POST/IHAVE injection (I
> think: I am seeing my articles posted via mail2news appearing long after
> others with earlier timestamps, that have presumably *not* gone the
> mail2news route).
No, it was posted direct.
> Is there any chance of a statement on the relative lags of POST/IHAVE vs.
> mail2news posting?
There is no difference in posting delay after the mailed article
has reached the news server. (articles posted by POST/IHAVE reach
the news server immediately)
--
Malcolm S. Muir Demon Internet Ltd.
Sunderland 322 Regents Park Road
England London N3 2QQ
jon m
Alan Grunwald (al...@nurdglaw.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <32d2b...@muir-et2.staff.demon.net>, Malcolm Muir
: <mal...@muir-et2.staff.demon.net> writes
: Thanks for the update Malcolm. A cure would be ideal, but in its absence
: information on progress is very welcome. I hope that the fix currently
: under test proves effective and look forward to an early, successful,
: rollout.
Dream on.............
jon
Pete Clark
In article <32d2b...@muir-et2.staff.demon.net>, Malcolm Muir
<mal...@muir-et2.staff.demon.net> writes
>someone using mars.usit.net to try posting an 84Mb article direct
>to our public news server.
>
>Malcolm Muir
>Demon Internet
>
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Pete Clark
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