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Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense

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On Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:10:08 -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote:

> On 7/31/26 23:52, Ray Banana wrote:
>> Thus spake Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de>
>>   
>>> Am 01.08.26 um 05:13 schrieb Nomen Nescio:
>>>> Do you not use DNS to refresh your name -> IP mapping regularly?
>>> IIRC INN resolved the names one time and then never does it again
>>> until restarted. Although that is from hearsay.
>> 
>> That would indicate that a daily cron job is missing:
>> 
>> 0       0   *   *   *   test -x /usr/local/news/bin/ctlinnd &&
>>   /usr/local/news/bin/ctlinnd -t 300 -s reload incoming.conf "flush
>>   cache"
>> 
>> Has been working for me for decades.
> 
> Yeah you got it, that's the intention with inn right now and there's an
> issue on GitHub describing how to fix:
> https://github.com/InterNetNews/inn/issues/89.
> 
> There are plenty of reasons to not expect a peer to be fixed to one IP
> unless you have a mutual understanding of that case.
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin

even running multiple front ends using a load balancer which is what we 
did at $previous_life -not here in my own organisation as these days 
usage is obviously very different from 30 yrs ago, or even 10 years ago, 
everything can run on one server when doing text only groups, even with 
decades of retention, we have a HP dl380 gen4 in early days, only had 16G 
ram, it could happly handle 600 concurrent usenet sessions, and the load 
was still under 1, I guess thats why its hard to get me to dump dnews.

Anyways I have enough peers, and as most my peers peer with each other 
(why I've never approached Ray), I fail to see why I too need 30 peers, 
I'm happy with the 5, I have (excluding another 4 what I call downstream 
peers which are universities and dont tend to post much outside their 
local groups).

Some of my peers have changed IP's over time for various reasons, in 
recent times, one we've probably all seen one with their thoughtful 
notifications, that are appreciated by some, and they should be seen as 
an example on how to communicate changes, well done there, over the 
ditch ;)

So Kevin I see no valid reason for a peer not to be fixed to one IP (if 
multiple you let your peers know -how its always been done), in fact isnt 
it a case that most of us here have policies requiring a static IP to 
even be considered for peering :)

All in all its just common courtesy to give your peers a heads up, its 
fine if Jesse no longer wants peering, jesus, it took me 3 weeks to 
discover he was MIA courtesy of the pending articles list file hitting  
10Mb which triggered the email alert, anyways he can either accept the 
advice or ignore it, the sun will still rise in the morning. 

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another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-08-01 09:56 +1000
  Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2026-08-01 03:13 +0000
    Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-08-01 06:18 +0200
      Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Ray Banana <rayban@raybanana.net> - 2026-08-01 08:52 +0200
        Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-08-01 01:10 -0700
          Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-08-01 20:55 +1000
            Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-08-01 04:50 -0700
              Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-08-01 23:54 +1000
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2026-08-01 16:25 +0000
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Ivo Gandolfo <usenet@bofh.team> - 2026-08-01 21:02 +0200
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-08-02 09:04 +1000
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Ivo Gandolfo <usenet@bofh.team> - 2026-08-02 12:54 +0200
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-08-04 08:23 +1000
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2026-08-04 02:34 +0000
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-08-06 00:12 -0700
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2026-08-02 11:45 +0000
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-08-01 16:25 -0700
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Eddie Martin <ejm@nospammy.myplace.de> - 2026-08-02 10:50 +1000
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-08-01 18:19 -0700
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Eddie Martin <ejm@nospammy.myplace.de> - 2026-08-02 13:29 +1000
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-08-01 21:02 -0700
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-08-02 06:41 +0200
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-08-01 22:11 -0700
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Ivo Gandolfo <usenet@bofh.team> - 2026-08-02 13:02 +0200
                Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense D <J@M> - 2026-08-02 06:47 +0200
        Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-08-01 20:08 +1000
          Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Ray Banana <rayban@raybanana.net> - 2026-08-01 16:35 +0200
    Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-08-01 20:07 +1000
  Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> - 2026-08-15 01:47 -0500
    Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2026-08-15 13:17 +0000
      Re: another peeve with newsmaster who dont do common sense Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> - 2026-08-29 22:32 -0500

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