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  • Is Leafnode still possible?

    From Jason Evans@jsevans@mailfence.com to news.software.nntp on Sun Nov 3 03:44:10 2024
    From Newsgroup: news.software.nntp

    Last weekend I tried setting up a VM to provide cached Usenet articles using Leafnode. I set it up to work with two servers: Eternal-September and the
    paid service I use, Usenetnow. I have no problem logging into either
    service on port 119 or 563 from my PC. I set up Leafnode to use the
    standard unencrypted port 119 for compatibility reasons
    in /etc/news/leafnode/config (using Debian 12). However, the result was
    that Eternal-September refused to let me log in and Usenetnow worked, but incredibly slowly; something like 1 article per second when trying to cache news.groups.

    Now, I have a fast internet connection and I don't technically *need*
    Leafnode but I wanted to find a new way to store news articles for my
    archives.

    Any thoughts or suggestions?

    Jason
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  • From Ray Banana@rayban@raybanana.net to news.software.nntp on Sun Nov 3 13:44:36 2024
    From Newsgroup: news.software.nntp

    Thus spake Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com>

    Last weekend I tried setting up a VM to provide cached Usenet articles using Leafnode. I set it up to work with two servers: Eternal-September and the paid service I use, Usenetnow. I have no problem logging into either
    service on port 119 or 563 from my PC. I set up Leafnode to use the
    standard unencrypted port 119 for compatibility reasons
    in /etc/news/leafnode/config (using Debian 12). However, the result was
    that Eternal-September refused to let me log in

    and the reason was that leafnode tried to download more than 50.000
    articles from E-S, which got both your IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
    blacklisted in the firewall.
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    -f-a|U-e-u-+ rCo -a-a-|-+-+|U
    https://www.eternal-september.org
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  • From Jason Evans@jsevans@mailfence.com to news.software.nntp on Sun Nov 3 08:37:50 2024
    From Newsgroup: news.software.nntp

    Ray Banana wrote:

    and the reason was that leafnode tried to download more than 50.000
    articles from E-S, which got both your IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
    blacklisted in the firewall.

    I'm sure this is the case. The fact that I am posting this article now is
    proof that I'm not banned for life and I won't try that again with E-T.

    What I'm surprised about though is that this weirdness is happening with a
    paid account. It's no secret that most big paid providers don't care at all about "classic Usenet" they are providing access to filesharing under the
    guise of Usenet and yet if I try to cache text articles from them, it's rate-limited like crazy. However, if I were to try to download a 2GB movie file, it would be completely OK.

    Jason
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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to news.software.nntp on Sat Nov 9 02:40:03 2024
    From Newsgroup: news.software.nntp

    Ray Banana <rayban@raybanana.net> wrote at 12:44 this Sunday (GMT):
    Thus spake Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com>

    Last weekend I tried setting up a VM to provide cached Usenet articles using >> Leafnode. I set it up to work with two servers: Eternal-September and the
    paid service I use, Usenetnow. I have no problem logging into either
    service on port 119 or 563 from my PC. I set up Leafnode to use the
    standard unencrypted port 119 for compatibility reasons
    in /etc/news/leafnode/config (using Debian 12). However, the result was
    that Eternal-September refused to let me log in

    and the reason was that leafnode tried to download more than 50.000
    articles from E-S, which got both your IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
    blacklisted in the firewall.


    And that's why I have my slrnpull config set up to only download like 20 messages at a time :D
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom
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