[985] in SIPB bug reports
rn gives misleading message when news server down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Apr 2 09:56:46 1990
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 90 09:56:24 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: usenet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: John Carr's message of Wed, 14 Feb 90 13:25:02 EST <9002141825.AA02429@achates.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 13:25:02 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
% telnet bloom-beacon nntp
Trying...
Connected to BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU.
Escape character is '^]'.
502 Bloom-beacon is down for software maintainance. Try again later.
Connection closed by foreign host.
% rn
This machine does not have permission to use the bloom-beacon.mit.edu news server.
"rn" should have reported the status message I saw with telnet. "This
machine does not have permission" is the kind of message that makes me
chase down and bother the maintainers of net news until they fix it.
"bloom-beacon is down" will make me try again later.
--John Carr
I've installed a version of rrn which should fix this in the sipb
locker. The next time news goes down, you can test it :-). It'll be
released with the volume release tonight.
jik
