[2465] in SIPB bug reports
rn error message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Wed Feb 12 23:11:05 1992
To: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 23:10:37 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
When the news server is down in such a way that connects on the NNTP
port return EOF immediately (for example, if the nntp server binary
does not exist), rn and xrn return a bad message. They say:
Unexpected response code from news.mit.edu news server: 0
A better message would be
Unexpected EOF from news.mit.edu news server
or
Unable to connect to news.mit.edu news server
with possibly an additional line explaining that this is a software
problem on the server.
