Re: [Pan-users] Re: ANN: Pan 0.101 "A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist."

[David Kelly]

On Jun 25, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Charles Kerr wrote:

> > Some quick notes:
> > - I can't connect to my server at 127.0.0.1 on WinXP. Could this have
> > something to do with the W2K networking fixes?
>
> No idea.  Anyone care to see if a Linux build can
> connect to a local news server?

I believe the version I built just now on FreeBSD can communicate to  
localhost on port 1119 as thats where I put a remote news server on  
ssh relay. Something like this:

ssh -L 1119:news.remote.isp:119 login.remote.isp

I don't do the above all the time because its slower, and the login  
shell has a logout timer that has to be tickled to maintain the  
connection.

Still getting adjusted to the new series and don't have a good handle  
on controlling multiple news servers. One major feature was to  
automatically parallel multiple servers? Primary on usenetserver.com  
is often missing parts of a multipart binary, but the missing parts  
is listed. Old pan would balk if part 23 of 79 was missing and not  
download 24 thru 79.

Configured old pan to not remove failed tasks from the task list. As  
long as they are still on the task list apparently their data is  
still cached on my drive. Have found I can ssh tunnel to another ISP  
who uses Supernews, re-queue the download of the particular broken  
binary and it resumes where the first left off. After it gets past  
the rough spot can stop the second, delete the first's stopped task,  
re-queue a new task for the same thing on the first server and resume  
where the 2nd left off.

Configured .100 to use the usenetserver.com server as primary,  
Supernews as backup. I don't always have the ssh tunnel open to  
Supernews, this seems to be a bit of a problem.

Using .100 I started download of a known problem binary with only  
usenetserver.com. Saw broken multipart files in the listing. Added  
Supernews as backup and refreshed message headers. Saw the broken  
icons replaced with whole icons. The files properly downloaded as  
50MB each but par2 only found 1 of 27 good blocks in each.

So how does this relate to 101? As I said, I don't have a good handle  
on controlling multiple servers in the new series. My primary is  
throttled to 2 sessions, backup at default 4, and just now for  
"update headers in subscribed groups" ran with 6 connections. So I  
believe that it was talking thru localhost.

Also note that I said, "localhost" and not 127.0.0.1, as I configured  
it as localhost, not by number, altho both should be the same.

Having said all that all is not rosy. Double-click on a subscribed  
group, CPU goes to 100%, Pan 0.101's window title changes to the  
group name, CPU drops to normal idle, window title returns to "pan",  
and nothing is listed. "It worked in 0.100".

Other than FreeBSD, the only deviation is that I'm running direct  
from the pan/gui directory without the "make install" step. Thought  
it probably best to skip formal installation/removal/installation  
each week. Is that a mistake? Does it need to put stuff other than  
where its built in order to run properly?

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.