Is Leafnode still possible?

[Jason Evans]

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

[Ray Banana]

Post by Jason Evans
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.

[Jason Evans]

Post by Ray Banana
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

[candycanearter07]

Post by Ray Banana

Post by Jason Evans
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