Can't read news with 2.1.84: Gnus hangs:-(

Andreas Jaeger (ajaeger@student.uni-kl.de)
Tue, 3 Feb 98 19:28 CET

I've upgraded from 2.1.79 to 2.1.84 and have problems with reading
news via nntp on my local machine. In three out of four trials my
newsreader (Xemacs 20.3 with qgnus 0.22) hangs waiting for data.

netstat -n says first:
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 724 192.168.27.1:119 192.168.27.1:1368 ESTABLISHED
tcp 5097 0 192.168.27.1:1368 192.168.27.1:119 ESTABLISHED

but lateron when gnus hangs:
$ netstat -n|grep 119
tcp 0 12021 192.168.27.1:119 192.168.27.1:1368 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 192.168.27.1:1368 192.168.27.1:119 ESTABLISHED

The same setup is working with 2.1.79 without problems (on i486 with
glibc 2.1 development version, inn 1.7.1).

I'm using 2.1.84 with the network related patches from Alan's patch
(2.1.82-alan.patch.gz). Plain 2.1.84 was even worse :-(.

Any ideas what might be wrong - or how I can investigate it myself?

Andreas

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