How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly

How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly

[Harry]

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 <enter> 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?

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

[Markus Korber]

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?

Regards,
Markus Korber

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

[Harry Putnam]

Markus Korber <korbse@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.

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

[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
 -- 

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

[Peter Jones]

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@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.

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

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

[Harry Putnam]

Peter Jones <mlists@pmade.com> writes:

> Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@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.

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

[Harry Putnam]

Peter Jones <mlists@pmade.com> writes:

> Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@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.

What do you mean by 'gmane forums'?  Do you mean 'gmane.discuss' or
something more?