How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly
Running Debian 'testing' Emacs-24 - gnus (1wk since last git pull), so magnus. I may have posted to the wrong place about this on gmane.discuss. Here is probably more likely to get results. Yesterday I was piddling around trying to make gnus download some specfic nntp messages from a few wks ago. I once used the agent extensively but over the yrs have migrated away from that, from having a huge inventory of messages on local disk, although it can be very usefull at times. Gmane has made it unnecessary (Thank you Lars, Thank you gmane and gnus developers) Anyway, cutting to the chase... I've forgotten virtually ALL I knew about using the agent... just tried marking with '%' and trying `J j' or `J s' to get them. 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 seems to launch gnus into a massive read of all my `read' messages which would number thousands and thousands. In the nntp buffer I see a massive list of messages listed out by number I killed after a few minutes. Can anyone help me track this down? ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
Re: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly
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 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? Regards, Markus Korber ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
Re: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly
Markus Korber 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 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. ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
Re: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly
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 -- ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
Re: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly
Sivaram Neelakantan 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. -- Peter Jones, Founder, Devalot.com Defending the honor of good code ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
Re: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly
Peter Jones writes: > Sivaram Neelakantan 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. ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
Re: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly
Peter Jones writes: > Sivaram Neelakantan 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. What do you mean by 'gmane forums'? Do you mean 'gmane.discuss' or something more? ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
