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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: RE: Problem feeding ANU-News V5.8 from Ultrix via DECNET
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Date: 3 Oct 89 17:49:54 GMT
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>I have installed ANU-News V5.8 on a VAX running VMS 4.7 and am trying to
>feed it from an Ultrix V3.0 system running News V2.11.  After the text of
>the first article is transferred to VMS, the connection seems to die.  It
>appears that Ultrix is waiting for a response (perhaps the 235 message).
>Below is the Ultrix nntpxmit debug log (SUNSET is the VMS node name):
     
On the assumption that you are connecting to the NNTP server
on the Ultrix siude via DECnet I acn offer the following comments:...
     
     
The implementation of DECnet on Ultrix is prone to sync errors -
The Ultirx DECnet NNTP connection was investigated by Leonard Pierce (as I
remember) about 12 months ago, and the trick used then was to include
IO$M_MULTIPLE on the channel READ QIO's on the VMS side.
     
Oddly enough I have not been informed of any problems with connecting to Ultrix
using TCP as the transport - it's only DECnet which gives problems.
     
Geoff Huston