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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.igcom.net!news.igcom.net!not-for-mail From: david@news.igcom.net (David Bauman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Bad Date Header errors Date: 21 Feb 1996 12:18:29 -0600 Organization: InterGlobal Communications, Chicagoland's affordable ISP. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4gfnll$fl@moon.igcom.net> References: <4gbkla$men@bighorn.accessnv.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: moon.igcom.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Randall Roman (rroman@bighorn.accessnv.com) wrote: : I've just set up the pre-installed news server on a box running BSDI 2.1 : and the server rejects more than 90% of all incoming articles with a Bad : 'Date' header error. : Examples from the news log follows: : Feb 15 21:11:35.237 - imci5 <1996Feb15.210306.18737@netclub.ru> 437 Bad : "Date" h : eader -- "Thu, 15 Feb 1996 21:03:06 GMT" : Feb 15 21:11:35.476 - imci5 <4g0iv0$9i7@news.csus.edu> 437 Bad "Date" : header -- : "16 Feb 1996 00:26:08 GMT" : Feb 15 21:11:35.738 - imci5 <4g0sdv$n48@ccic.ifcss.org> 437 Bad "Date" : header -- : "Fri, 16 Feb 1996 02:44:02 GMT" : Feb 15 21:11:35.975 - imci5 <0006QP$4f6@bbs.ccu.edu.tw> 437 Bad "Date" : header -- : "16 Feb 1996 02:52:06 GMT" : Feb 15 21:11:36.224 - imci5 <3123f2d6.29939186@news.inmind.com> 437 Bad : "Date" h : eader -- "Fri, 16 Feb 1996 02:59:52 GMT" : I've checked our other news servers, and articles rejected by this BSDI : box are accepted by our other servers. All the servers are running : INN 1.4 22-Dec-93. The servers that do work are running under SunOS 4.1.3, : the server that doesn't work is the server that was installed with BSDI 2.1 : Thanks, : Randy Get the patches from ftp.bsdi.com. There is a fix for this. David Bauman