Re: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly

2013-08-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Markus Korber kor...@ymail.com writes:

 Thus spake Harry:
 
  Running Debian 'testing'
  Emacs-24 - gnus (1wk since last git pull), so magnus.
  
  [...]
  
  It didn't work, but this morning I'm suddenly being hit with authentication
  prompts from gmane server 'news.gmane.org'  Asking me for my User name.
  when of course I don't have one and should not need one.
 
  Just ignoring the message and pressing enter seems to launch gnus into a
  massive read of all my `read' messages which would number thousands and
  thousands.
 
 Same here with Ubuntu 12.04, Emacs 23.3.1 and No Gnus v0.11.  However
 only for one subscribed group (gmane.comp.hardware.arm.lpc2100) and not
 for others (e.g. gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.general).  Any ideas?

Someone on gmane.discuss suggested I look here to see if my IP was
banned on Gmane:
  http://gmane.org/denied.php.

And sure enough, when I looked I found my provider and even the IP I
recieved from them... listed as banned.

This is my IP:
   z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com (20130821)

The number in parens is a link that reveaks the info below:
  Warning: fopen(/home/httpd/data/news/20130821) [function.fopen]: failed to
  open stream: No such file or directory in
  /home/httpd/gmane/html/stat-day.php on line 19

I suggest you check the cited gmane link above to see if your IP is
similarly banned.

I left word on gmane.discuss of what I've posted above but no one has
responded.

Maybe some one here can throw some light on this.


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Re: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly

2013-08-23 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Fri, Aug 23 2013,Harry Putnam wrote:


[snipped 35 lines]


 I suggest you check the cited gmane link above to see if your IP is
 similarly banned.

 I left word on gmane.discuss of what I've posted above but no one has
 responded.

 Maybe some one here can throw some light on this.

I vaguely remember getting banned a few years back and it then went
 away in a few days, I think.  Or I may have mailed Lars and he may
 fixed something

 sivaram
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Re: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly

2013-08-23 Thread Peter Jones
Sivaram Neelakantan nsivaram@gmail.com writes:
 I vaguely remember getting banned a few years back and it then went
  away in a few days, I think.  Or I may have mailed Lars and he may
  fixed something

A few years ago a large IP range for my ISP was blocked on gmane.  I
complained on the gmane forums and they changed the ban to be more
specific.

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Peter Jones, Founder, Devalot.com
Defending the honor of good code


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Re: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly

2013-08-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter Jones mli...@pmade.com writes:

 Sivaram Neelakantan nsivaram@gmail.com writes:
  I vaguely remember getting banned a few years back and it then went
   away in a few days, I think.  Or I may have mailed Lars and he may
   fixed something
 
 A few years ago a large IP range for my ISP was blocked on gmane.  I
 complained on the gmane forums and they changed the ban to be more
 specific.

I have brought it to there attention on gmane.discuss  but it was only
a few hrs ago.


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