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["Steven L. Baur" <steve@miranova.com>]

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To: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Connecting to a newsserver with nntp.
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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Date: 21 Feb 1996 15:26:31 -0800
In-Reply-To: pp@pfawww.pp.se's message of 21 Feb 1996 12:19:07 -0800
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>>>>> "Per" == Per Persson <pp@pfawww.pp.se> writes:

eichin@cygnus.com writes:
>> Just note that ping isn't reliable (for example, if I can get to the
>> nntp server though a firewall without being able to ping the host, it
>> should still let me...) though that just means it should be
>> optional... what could another variable hurt :-)

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU> writes:

Greg> There are lots of problems with trying to determine if the host
Greg> is up through some other mechinism like ping.  Trusting two
Greg> different protocols to agree about whether the host is available
Greg> is going to be inherently unreliable.

Yes.  The machine we get news on here is frequently pingable but
refuses nntp connections.  The only way to really know for sure is to
try it.  Another example of the same thing is reading news through a
proxy, you may be able to ping the proxy machine and connect to the
nntp port of the proxy, but still not be able to get any news.

Per> Hey this is emacs!

Per> gnus-use-ping			If we want to use ping.
Per> gnus-ping-command-list		Which ping to use.	
...
Cool.  I suppose you'll have gnus-ping.el ready by 1-April?  :-)
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