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nntp import reloads (duplicates) posts randomly [message #36066]

Fri, 02 March 2007 05:12

rdthoms

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Registered: January 2007

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Had a problem where the newsgroup link would seem to randomly reload (duplicate) a bunch of posts into the forum. Here is what I found and changed:

in the parse_msgs function in include/nntp.inc there is some logic where the function compares the last read message id ($start_id) with the first and last message ids available from your news server. It looks like this:

if ($start_id && $start_id > $this->group_first && $start_id <= $this->group_last) {
  $this->group_first = $start_id;
}

or what is really happening in psuedo code:

if (last_read > first_available && last_read <= last_available) {
  start reading from last_read
} else {
  start reading from first_available
}

The "random" problem would occur when the nntp server would somehow "lose" the last few posts. For example I would get a good sync reading messages 900-1000 from the nntp server and then start_id would be 1000. So far so good.

Then when the next sync happened sometimes for some reason the last message was 998 instead of the expected 1000 (maybe they deleted some spam or something).

Anyway, in that case the logic in the above snippet of code fails to start reading from last_read and instead starts reading from first_available! So now messages 900-998 get read again!

So I changed the code to:

if ($start_id && $start_id > $this->group_first) {
  $this->group_first = $start_id;
}

I don't see any reason to check that the local start_id is less than the group_last. If it happens that that is not the case then it seems to safely run and not read any messages.

I hope you can understand the issue and consider making the change permanent.

Thanks,
Richard

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		nntp import reloads (duplicates) posts randomly By: rdthoms on Fri, 02 March 2007 05:12
		Re: nntp import reloads (duplicates) posts randomly By: Ilia on Sun, 04 March 2007 17:39
		Re: nntp import reloads (duplicates) posts randomly By: greg on Thu, 08 March 2007 11:49
		Re: nntp import reloads (duplicates) posts randomly By: Ilia on Fri, 09 March 2007 00:33
		Re: nntp import reloads (duplicates) posts randomly By: greg on Fri, 09 March 2007 00:43
		Re: nntp import reloads (duplicates) posts randomly By: rdthoms on Fri, 09 March 2007 03:26

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