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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 1996 17:16:47 +0930 (CST)
From:      Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au>
To:        mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: odd problem with 2.1R NNTP access
Message-ID:  <199609190746.RAA20172@al.imforei.apana.org.au>

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In article <199609190222.AA191889729@hp.com> you wrote:
: RFC1373 is about DUAs, how does that affect NNTP ?
: Or is it a side effect of RFC1373 implementation into 2.1R ?

 Some hardware doesn't handle, or handles incorrectly the TCP
 extensions available.   Stuff like the annex 4000 at the melbourne
 apana hub just (in my experience) screws connections up.

 Other known mishandlers of these extensions are linux machines
 (someone posted a list of offenders a while ago)

 Trying to get a NNTP feed of the apana.* groups from hock 
 to sa's newsserver just would not happen, until we turned off these
 extensions.  The connection would extablish.. and then just hang
 and timeout.

 YMMV.

 Peter

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