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Re: rslight with leafnode

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From: Mei@rslight.i2p (Mei)
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Subject: Re: rslight with leafnode
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:57:11 -0000 (UTC)
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 by: Mei - Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:57 UTC

> Are links opening in new tabs? They shouldn't be doing that, they don't for me.
No, that's just how I've been navigating: open a tab to one of the board lists then check out each interesting board (thanks for the color coding!) in that tab. Then just move on to the next category. This way it's like, open that tab, then a tab for a board, then maybe another tab per thread or use that tab to look at the active one. The board tab is added in when I can't keep the board list open otherwise (I would have to reload it and that's not always an enjoyable experience over i2p which I use because I am silly).

>> Navigation also feels somewhat less clear now, more constrained to a narrower view that connects only to the top level. Something like that.
> Near the top left below the header there should be a way to go back one level, like:
> rocksolid / rocksolid.nodes / rslight with leafnode
> with links to go back to the group, or main page.
Mumble mumble still like the feel of having the list there. Maybe I'm just too old to accept change :P

>> I guess it couldn't just keep getting purely better forever. Eventually it would have overflowed and become pure garbage, then be sold to a government because they love shitty software. Worse, I would run out of things to complain about!
> Overflowed is what it was becoming :) and I really hated the groups list on the left. What I disliked the most was you can't easily refresh with frames, and your browser's history just shows 'Rocksolid Light' for every page you've visited, which makes it kind of hard to go back and find something. Making incoming links work was a nightmare, and required javascript.
Right click, h, r! was my friend. True, it's slightly more effort and the frames were eating all of the snacks...

> I really hope to clean up the non-framed site and make it work as nicely as the framed site, without all the problems associated with the frames.
We will take that as a promise and riot if it's not done to perfection and released by the date we imagine! No pressure ;)

>> Speaking of complaining, some groups are showing up twice.
>> comp.emulators.apple2
>> comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
> Fixed. Someone (Retro Guy), had those groups listed twice in the groups list. The duplicates should disappear once the list refreshes (automatically every few hours).
That goof! You've got to keep a careful eye on him or he does weird things like that.

>> Those are the only ones I notice. I bet the duplicates were living under those frames and Retro Guy threw away their homes!
> Ok I admit it, they begged for their frames back, but I was cruel!
You monster!

> Thanks for the input, I need feedback good or bad so I can hopefully make it work in a useful way!
> Retro Guy
I feel bad giving much feedback because there seem to be lots of people who don't. I guess they don't even have to sign up to speak for themselves, though, so if this place ends up catering to my whims then they have only themselves to blame!
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Re: rslight with leafnode

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From: Retro Guy@rslight.i2p (Retro Guy)
Newsgroups: rocksolid.nodes
Subject: Re: rslight with leafnode
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 11:31:10 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Rocksolid Light
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 by: Retro Guy - Sun, 16 Feb 2020 11:31 UTC

Mei wrote:

>> Thanks for the input, I need feedback good or bad so I can hopefully make it work in a useful way!
>> Retro Guy
> I feel bad giving much feedback because there seem to be lots of people who don't. I guess they don't even have to sign up to speak for themselves, though, so if this place ends up catering to my whims then they have only themselves to blame!

I appreciate all your feedback. Without it, I'm just making a site that I think works properly but can't be sure how others feel. You've found bugs that I've fixed that I didn't even know existed, thanks!

Retro Guy

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Re: rslight with leafnode

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From: Retro Guy@rslight.i2p (Retro Guy)
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Subject: Re: rslight with leafnode
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 11:34:06 -0000 (UTC)
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 by: Retro Guy - Sun, 16 Feb 2020 11:34 UTC

My testing with leafnode is working perfectly.

I think it's safe to say that rslight can run fast and well with a leafnode backend, and also this allows you to change news servers without having an issue with article number changes.

So basically, it's a very simple way to run a lightweight node and not be dependent on one particular news server (you can change to another or use multiple if you wish).

One more way to keep a node alive even if their upstream server goes away.

Retro Guy

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Re: rslight with leafnode

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From: Retro Guy@rslight.i2p (Retro Guy)
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Subject: Re: rslight with leafnode
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 07:48:59 +0000
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 by: Retro Guy - Sun, 23 Feb 2020 07:48 UTC

Retro Guy wrote:

> While leafnode is working great, I'm still considering just building it all into rslight. Since I've merged spoolnews into the code, it's actually ready to have all articles available immediately now, I just need to add local posting (then it posts to the server behind the scenes).

I was missing some messages when using leafnode and found it necessary to change:

## Here we have another news server which has a very slow connection. For
## that reason, we wait a full minute before we give up trying to connect.
## The default is 10 seconds.
# server = really.slow.example.org
timeout = 60

This is because I'm connecting via i2p and apparently it was timing out. Once I increased the timeout, so far it's working great.

Retro Guy

rslight as nntp server

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From: AnonUser@rslight.i2p (AnonUser)
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Subject: rslight as nntp server
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:55:45 -0000 (UTC)
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 by: AnonUser - Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:55 UTC

The built in nntp server for rslight is coming along nicely. Still plenty more work to do, but it's getting there.

At some point, I hope that rslight sites can talk to eachother as client/server, without the need for leafnode or inn or whatever in between.

Below is a connection example. The 'server' is simply an rslight install:

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Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.

200 Rocksolid Light NNTP Server ready (no posting)
list
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rocksolid.nodes.announce 56 47 n
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rocksolid.shared.freenet 10 10 n
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rocksolid.shared.helpdesk 71 57 n
rocksolid.shared.i2p 187 162 n
rocksolid.shared.linux 61 56 n
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Subject: Re: ffvm torrent released
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 20:45:29+0000
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well, yes, that is correct.the software shared in this torrent is outdated and should not be used anymore.
any new node admin is advised to use rslight (*) or fudforum (in case you like adventures and enjoy hacking around in php code).
a vm with a preinstalled debian and inn2 could be shared as well on request. let us know.

cheers

trw

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http://dkzerogt6z6ybhcj.onion/getrslight
http://rslight.i2p/getrslight
http://news.novabbs.com/getrslight

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quit
205 closing connection - goodbye!
Connection closed by foreign host.

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Re: rslight as nntp server

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 by: anon - Thu, 27 Feb 2020 20:22 UTC

you do your own newsserver in php ? that is way cool....

can't wait to see this work.

cheers

trw

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Re: rslight as nntp server

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From: retro.guy@retrobbs.rocksolidbbs.com.remove-xll-this (Retro Guy)
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Subject: Re: rslight as nntp server
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 by: Retro Guy - Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:00 UTC

To: anon
anon wrote:

> you do your own newsserver in php ? that is way cool....

So far it's working reasonably well. I have XOVER working now, and rslight is able to use it as it's nntp server for everything except posting at this time.

I'm using a test site that is connected via i2p. The rslight nntp client, spoolnews, connects to the server via i2p in the background, and the rslight nntp server is what rslight connects to to get articles, etc.

> can't wait to see this work.

It's fun to work on. I hope I can get it working reliably well over the next few weeks.

Retro Guy
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Re: rslight as nntp server

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 by: Retro Guy - Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:08 UTC

To: Retro Guy
Retro Guy wrote:

> anon wrote:

>> can't wait to see this work.

> It's fun to work on. I hope I can get it working reliably well over the next few weeks.

Just testing now with a regular news client and it's working fine. Pan and Knode as readers are having no problem with it. It spawns properly so multiple connections work fine.

I'm already running rslight as a client and having no trouble. Next comes posting.

Retro Guy

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 by: Retro Guy - Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:21 UTC
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Here's Rocksolid Light NNTP server as being used in Knode (attached)

Knode does a weird xover but I have it working fine.

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 by: Retro Guy - Sat, 29 Feb 2020 05:37 UTC

The test server at:
http://nyccgjh5cjapsf7frrhxqw73gb5hxj2ucau72ztn2oenxwetxr5q.b32.i2p

is now running rslight using the internal nntp server. So far it's working reasonably well. I need to run it on this site for a while to find bugs and work them out. One nice thing is I can also connect to it with any newsreader locally, which is cool.

In the background it collects articles via i2p from a remote server, but all rslight connections are to the local server, which makes it quite fast. It's like a very light leafnode install but faster, and gets it's config from the rslight install.

When done, this can just as easily connect to another rslight site instead of a real nntp server, which would allow chaining of rslight sites.

I ran a site side by side with this, the other connecting to a remote site via clearnet, and this method (built in nntp). This is much faster in response times, as would be expected.

Now I need to just use it and watch it break so I can find each bug that comes up. Once it seems reliable, I'll add the ability to post.

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 by: Retro Guy - Sat, 29 Feb 2020 09:35 UTC

Cool, found a but already! It's an issue with xover. I was lazy and was using the data from the upstream server and storing it. Seems that if there is a delay or timeout connecting via i2p, the cache gets messed up. I guess I'll have to create it myself, which I was trying to avoid. Since I already create an overview with spoolnews anyway, it won't be a real issue. Bugs like to show up as soon as you walk away, lol.

I'll work on that in a few days, the weekends are my busiest work hours of the week, so not much will be worked on for a few days.

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 by: Retro Guy - Sun, 1 Mar 2020 08:49 UTC

Currently supported commands in rslight nntp server:

AUTHINFO
MODE
GROUP
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HEAD
ARTICLE
HELP
QUIT

Mode is just there because clients may send it by default, but this nntp server only serves a reader anyway. You can send 'MODE flux capacitor' and it's still just in 'MODE reader'.

I've changed the way xover handles things, hopefully more stable now via i2p. If not, I should be able to get it working smoothly.

Once I'm comfortable this is all working reasonably well, I'll handle POST. It will work by spooling the article, and sending it to a remote server on next sync. If rslight sites are chained, I'll work out a path to outside so that articles actually get sent, just as a BBS does.

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 by: Retro Guy - Mon, 2 Mar 2020 10:46 UTC

Yay, descriptions work now that XGTITLE is implemented.

Also have NEWGROUPS working and fixed a bug with LIST NEWSGROUPS.

Currently testing with rslight, knode and pan as clients. It's really only meant to serve rslight, but if I can standardize enough, that's all the better.

Right now you can read all the groups served by your local rslight install with a newsreader, which is a nice plus. If you bind to an external address, you can allow remote connections by newsreader (or rslight) also.

Still lots of work and testing to do, but working nicely so far.

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 by: Retro Guy - Tue, 3 Mar 2020 08:58 UTC

Working on this has helped me find quite a few bugs not necessarily related to the nntp server. This was a nice chance to find problems I wasn't aware of and address them.

This also has given me the chance to tie spoolnews in much better, and now I've removed duplication of files in rslight, which of course reduces disk space usage, and speeds it up.

Just tested the server with Thunderbird as a client and it works just fine. Other than if I try to post (I don't), I'm not currently receiving errors from knode, pan and it looks like thunderbird now also. I do watch the knode and pan logs and all seems fine.

The server also now handles keeping descriptions up to date (according to it's remote server) and rslight displays what is provided by the server, so no need to add the descriptions in groups.txt unless you want to.

It's moving along more quickly than I anticipated, but I'm still going to keep running and testing it for a while before finishing the POST function.

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 by: anon - Tue, 3 Mar 2020 20:22 UTC

kudos to your skills, patience and effort. Once this has reached a level where installing a node is reduced to extracting an archive and fiddling with a few config files, this could boost the number of nodes.
really nice outlook.
on my end, i just have no time at all at the moment to do anything more than posting, there is too much meatspace stuff going on. did not even fix yet the broken layout on def3, let alone to get def2 running again....

cheers

trw

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 by: Retro Guy - Thu, 5 Mar 2020 07:20 UTC

anon wrote:

> kudos to your skills, patience and effort. Once this has reached a level where installing a node is reduced to extracting an archive and fiddling with a few config files, this could boost the number of nodes.

Thank you! This is my goal also. Once I'm comfortable with the new features, I plan to really clean up and organize the config file to make it very simple.

> really nice outlook.
> on my end, i just have no time at all at the moment to do anything more than posting, there is too much meatspace stuff going on. did not even fix yet the broken layout on def3, let alone to get def2 running again....

Understandable. rl really gets in the way of things, it's like we have to earn money and eat and stuff :)

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 by: Retro Guy - Thu, 5 Mar 2020 07:25 UTC

Posting seems to be working fine now, with rslight, knode or pan as a newsreader.

It works similar to leafnode, using two separate programs or scripts to operate:

spoolnews.php collects articles from a remote server and creates a local news spool, creates overview information, and group/description information. This file also sends articles posted locally each time it is run (from cron is the idea).

nntp.php is the nntp server. It handles all negotiation and communication with clients, and reads articles, overview etc from the files created by spoolnews. When you post an article locally, it is created locally for spoolnews to send on its next run.

If you set in your config file to use the local nntp server, spoolnews.php will start it on it's next run if it's not already running, so no need to start it separately. I don't want the end user to do a million little things, if they can be handled by just running one cron job.

nntp.php runs as a daemon, and spawns clients as necessary, that will die after use, so multiple server connections are accepted.

I'm sure there are plenty of bugs, but right now it is functioning as designed, I just need to keep using it to see what breaks. This message is being sent using it (as were a lot of test messages I made using a secondary test group).

Retro Guy

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 by: Retro Guy - Thu, 5 Mar 2020 22:25 UTC

It looks like chaining rslight sites is working.

This post is from a rslight site that is only connected to another rslight site. It's only access to inn is through the other site.

I plan to create an option in settings to set any rslight site as a "Hub", which would mean no external nntp server is necessary at all, you would be able to connect two or more rslight sites and have a complete network.

This would also allow one rslight site to operate as an independent forum, with no connections to other sites at all.

Lot's more testing to do, but it's working.

Retro Guy

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 by: Retro Guy - Fri, 6 Mar 2020 08:40 UTC

Retro Guy wrote:

> It looks like chaining rslight sites is working.

> This post is from a rslight site that is only connected to another rslight site. It's only access to inn is through the other site.

This seems to be working fine. This post (if you ever see it, lol), will travel through two other rslight sites before reaching an inn server.

> I plan to create an option in settings to set any rslight site as a "Hub", which would mean no external nntp server is necessary at all, you would be able to connect two or more rslight sites and have a complete network.

I believe I have working now independent article numbers. Previously, the article numbers matched the server you connect to, so if you change servers you would need to delete your spool and reload the articles from the new server.

On my test site, the 'newspool' link is where the article numbers are independent of the server. I've loaded articles in that area by loading some, changing servers, loading more, etc. for a total of three upstream servers. It seems to be working fine, but of course testing will hopefully show what might need to be improved.

This way, your upstream server can go away, and you just connect to another one (or an rslight site as your upstream server). All seems to be working so far.

The idea is to make federation as simple as possible, and reliable.

Oh, one thing I did to test against fudforum is to load some newer articles first, then pull old articles (2.5 years) from my Synchronet server. Unlike fudforum, the articles stay sorted by posted date, not just newest received on top. I need to see what effect this has on some newsreaders, but knode seems fine with it.

Time to eat!

Retro Guy

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From: Retro Guy@rslight.i2p (Retro Guy)
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Subject: Re: rslight as nntp server
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:00:08 -0000 (UTC)
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 by: Retro Guy - Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:00 UTC

Ok, auth works now. I previously had it just authorizing all users so I could work on the code. Now it's properly verifying. It's designed to allow reading to all, but auth is required to post.

Tested with rslight and three different newsreaders and all seems ok.

I'll be cleaning up the config files next (making them simple to follow), and bringing a few rarely used files up to date (like the display page for decrypted messages and a couple of others).

Retro Guy

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From: Retro Guy@rslight.i2p (Retro Guy)
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Subject: Re: rslight as nntp server
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 23:56:02 -0000 (UTC)
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 by: Retro Guy - Sun, 15 Mar 2020 23:56 UTC

The rslight nntp server seems to be working very well, but configuration is quite complex.

I'll be working to consolidate config to an easy file to understand, and also moving the spool directory to /var/spool/rslight, as even though I understand how it all works, I still have messed up my own spool since it's so easy to access when working in the /var/www section.

When done, there will be nothing in /var/www area that is in any way different from just extracting the installation tarball. All config will be in /etc/rslight and all spools will be in /var/spool/rslight. To upgrade, just extract the new version over what's already in /var/www.

Getting the nntp server and spoolnews to work together well was the hard part, but seems to be doing great, now just making install easy (by a script hopefully).

Retro Guy

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Subject: Re: rslight as nntp server
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 by: Retro Guy - Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:23 UTC
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The rslight nntp server is working very nicely.

Here (attached) is reading news using tin.

Retro Guy

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