SciFi posted on Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:10:34 +0000 as excerpted: > The glitch with Giganews, tho, is still bothering us, as I've asked HM > for some help privately. Namely, I'd like to see the "hexdump -C" of > the actual network packet(s) when we see this in the Pan error log: > >> Thu Mar 15 17:26:53 2012 - Error reading from news.giganews.com: >> Received corrupted data > > Such glitches have been with GN ever since I first joined them many many > years ago, and across several ISPs and news-reader apps etc., no matter > if SSL is involved (even thru stunnel) or with just a plain straight > connection. > > This occurs very randomly, a few times or so, day and night. It even > occurs when I have Pan set off-line. No other Usenet server/company > seems to do this (e.g. AW and Gmane do not do this, AFAICS). > > I'd like to get a handle on this glitch with GN and hopefully raise a > proper support ticket with them. But we probably need to see the "guts" > of the related network packet(s). It might be likely causing some other > glitches with other F/OSS NNTP projects (such as the 'yencee' script > I've mentioned in other earlier posts here or on pan-devel).
Sounds like you want something like wireshark or tcpdump. I've not used either, but wireshark in particular is well known for its packet capture and analysis abilities. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
