Daily Usenet Report

Mar 24 00:01:04 -- Mar 25 00:01:01

Unknown entries from news log file:

First 2 / 2 lines (100.0%)

Mar 24 08:13:42 newsfeed innd: message repeated 2 times: [ ctlinnd command s]
Mar 25 00:00:01 newsfeed nnrpd[3381557]: localhost auth: program exited with status 8

Log entries by program:

Program nameLines%LinesSize%Size
nnrpd 27852 54.9%3.4 MB 37.0%
innd 8860 17.5%1.3 MB 13.6%
inn 8607 17.0%3.6 MB 38.9%
innfeed 4790 9.4%893.1 KB 9.4%
cnfsstat 576 1.1%86.5 KB 0.9%
nocem 61 0.1%8.2 KB 0.1%
controlchan 1 0.0%0.1 KB 0.0%
TOTAL: 7 50747 100.0%9.2 MB100.0%

History cache:

ReasonCount%Count
Positive hits 130172 63.1%
Negative hits 65503 31.7%
Do not exist 8488 4.1%
Cache misses 2218 1.1%
TOTAL: 4 206381 100.0%

innd timer:

Code regionTimePctInvokedMin(ms)Avg(ms)Max(ms)
article cancel00:00:00.124 0.0%19 0.000 6.526 11.000
article cleanup00:00:00.118 0.0%8572 0.000 0.014 0.432
article logging00:00:00.455 0.0%8623 0.000 0.053 0.806
article parse00:00:00.213 0.0%14085 0.000 0.015 0.105
article write00:00:02.341 0.0%6994 0.000 0.335 13.286
artlog/artcncl00:00:00.000 0.0%1 0.000 0.000 0.000
artlog/artparse00:00:00.000 0.0%1 0.000 0.000 0.000
data move00:00:00.994 0.0%208762 0.000 0.005 0.223
hisgrep/artcncl00:00:00.096 0.0%20 0.000 4.800 8.250
hishave/artcncl00:00:00.000 0.0%1 0.000 0.000 0.000
hishave/artparse00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
history grep00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
history lookup00:02:43.326 0.2%208260 0.087 0.784 4.858
history sync00:00:00.074 0.0%398 0.000 0.186 1.333
history write00:02:13.549 0.2%8572 3.286 15.580 117.451
hiswrite/artcncl00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
hiswrite/artparse00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
idle23:40:57.443 98.6%210955 71.854 404.150 2222.219
nntp read00:00:04.662 0.0%210092 0.003 0.022 0.293
overview write00:13:20.281 0.9%6994 0.610 114.424 10307.308
perl filter00:00:29.458 0.0%8571 1.479 3.437 18.600
python filter00:00:01.898 0.0%8571 0.000 0.221 4.329
site send00:00:01.232 0.0%14044 0.000 0.088 0.280
TOTAL: 2323:59:56.264 99.9%----

innfeed timer:

Code regionTimePctInvokedMin(ms)Avg(ms)Max(ms)
article new00:00:00.018 0.0%10344 0.000 0.002 0.055
article prepare00:00:00.004 0.0%51630 0.000 0.000 0.004
article read00:00:00.741 0.0%5016 0.000 0.148 0.778
backlog stats00:00:00.416 0.0%295759 0.000 0.001 0.011
callbacks00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
data read00:00:02.435 0.0%199684 0.003 0.012 0.045
data write00:00:03.623 0.0%194949 0.006 0.019 0.041
idle23:57:49.766100.0%295759 141.210 291.689 2027.666
status file00:00:00.571 0.0%446 1.000 1.280 15.000
TOTAL: 923:57:57.574100.0%----

nnrpd timer:

Code regionTimePctInvokedMin(ms)Avg(ms)Max(ms)
idle00:51:55.601 99.9%16610 110.000 187.574166972.250
newnews00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
nntpwrite00:00:04.210 0.1%112040 0.000 0.038 3.667
TOTAL: 300:51:59.811100.0%----

Control commands to innd:

CommandNumber
flush 5
flushlogs 2
go 2
logmode 2
lowmark 1
mode 97
name 2
pause 2
paused 2
reload 2
reserve 2
TOTAL: 11 119

Incoming feeds (innd):

ServerConnectsOfferedTakenRefusedReject%AccptElapsed
1news.dne3.net 2 7071 1636 5413 22 23%28:02:50
2usenet.goja.nl.eu.org 11 7730 810 6681 239 10%24:46:13
3usenet.blueworldhosting.com 718 8393 774 7025 594 9%23:57:27
4endofthelinebbs-out.news.weretis.net 3 13089 718 12324 47 5%50:07:14
5news.nntp4.net 1 6908 541 6250 117 7%23:59:55
6usenet.network 1 5753 393 5346 14 6%23:59:57
7news.corradoroberto.it 2 1992 385 1607 0 19%24:00:04
8newsfeed.bofh.team 1 8479 365 7984 130 4%23:59:57
9nntp.comgw.net 1 7702 264 7278 160 3%23:59:57
10i2pn.org 1 7510 244 7185 81 3%23:59:53
11endoftheline-out.news.chmurka.net 1 3495 208 3286 1 5%23:59:57
12194.87.241.33 46 293 142 110 41 48%16:58:47
13endofthelinebbs.peers.news.panix.com 25 7450 116 7327 7 1%23:54:29
14news.samoylyk.net 4 8213 112 8099 2 1%20:50:28
15newsfeed.xs3.de 2 5965 85 5876 4 1%23:59:11
16news.furie.org.uk 1 3913 76 3836 1 1%23:59:57
17news.hispagatos.org 10 7659 66 7551 42 0%24:52:42
18peering.usenet.ovh 2 7592 45 7541 6 0%23:59:22
19glockenspiel.complete.org 2 5138 27 5111 0 0%23:57:39
20news.netfront.net 1 6133 26 6076 31 0%23:43:25
21news.bbs.nz 2 6130 14 6114 2 0%23:59:32
22outgoing.news.lysator.liu.se 1 4399 1 4398 0 0%21:49:58
23eotl-out.news.tnetconsulting.net 1 0 0 0 0 0%00:10:04
24localhost 26 0 0 0 0 0%00:00:00
25news.nk.ca 2 0 0 0 0 0%00:20:11
TOTAL: 25 867 141007 7048 132418 1541 4%547:29:09
Articles received by server

Incoming volume (innd):

ServerAcceptVolDupVolRejVolTotalVol%AccVol/Art
1news.dne3.net4.6 MB0.0 KB26.9 KB4.6 MB 99%2.9 KB
2usenet.network3.8 MB0.0 KB20.0 KB3.8 MB 99%9.5 KB
3news.corradoroberto.it2.6 MB0.0 KB0.0 KB2.6 MB100%6.8 KB
4endofthelinebbs-out.news.weretis.net2.5 MB0.0 KB138.9 KB2.7 MB 94%3.6 KB
5usenet.goja.nl.eu.org2.3 MB0.0 KB381.3 KB2.6 MB 85%2.6 KB
6usenet.blueworldhosting.com2.0 MB0.0 KB1.1 MB3.1 MB 65%2.3 KB
7news.nntp4.net1.5 MB0.0 KB140.5 KB1.7 MB 91%2.6 KB
8news.samoylyk.net1.4 MB0.0 KB2.8 KB1.4 MB 99%12.6 KB
9newsfeed.bofh.team1.1 MB0.0 KB184.6 KB1.3 MB 86%2.7 KB
10i2pn.org914.5 KB0.0 KB109.1 KB1023.6 KB 89%3.1 KB
11nntp.comgw.net896.5 KB0.0 KB289.5 KB1.2 MB 75%2.8 KB
12endoftheline-out.news.chmurka.net800.8 KB0.0 KB0.8 KB801.6 KB 99%3.8 KB
13newsfeed.xs3.de516.1 KB0.0 KB5.4 KB521.5 KB 98%5.9 KB
14194.87.241.33376.3 KB0.0 KB52.3 KB428.6 KB 87%2.3 KB
15news.furie.org.uk361.7 KB0.0 KB0.8 KB362.4 KB 99%4.7 KB
16endofthelinebbs.peers.news.panix.com326.6 KB0.0 KB9.9 KB336.4 KB 97%2.7 KB
17glockenspiel.complete.org299.5 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB299.5 KB100%11.1 KB
18peering.usenet.ovh251.0 KB0.0 KB7.1 KB258.1 KB 97%5.1 KB
19news.hispagatos.org223.1 KB0.0 KB80.7 KB303.9 KB 73%2.8 KB
20news.netfront.net86.1 KB0.0 KB777.8 KB863.9 KB 9%15.2 KB
21news.bbs.nz38.7 KB1.7 KB0.8 KB41.2 KB 93%2.6 KB
22outgoing.news.lysator.liu.se4.2 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB4.2 KB100%4.2 KB
23eotl-out.news.tnetconsulting.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB 0%0
24localhost0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB 0%0
25news.nk.ca0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB 0%0
TOTAL: 2526.8 MB1.7 KB3.2 MB30.0 MB 89%3.6 KB
Incoming volume received by server

Incoming articles (innd):

DateArticles%ArtsArt/secSize%SizeKB/sec
Mar 24 00:01:04 - 00:59:59 144 2.1% 0.04497.0 KB 1.8% 0.14
Mar 24 01:00:00 - 01:59:59 144 2.1% 0.04641.4 KB 2.3% 0.18
Mar 24 02:00:00 - 02:59:59 274 3.9% 0.081.4 MB 5.1% 0.39
Mar 24 03:00:00 - 03:59:59 279 4.0% 0.081.2 MB 4.3% 0.33
Mar 24 04:00:00 - 04:59:59 366 5.2% 0.101.0 MB 3.8% 0.29
Mar 24 05:00:00 - 05:59:59 352 5.0% 0.101.0 MB 3.9% 0.30
Mar 24 06:00:00 - 06:59:59 353 5.1% 0.101021.6 KB 3.7% 0.28
Mar 24 07:00:00 - 07:59:59 279 4.0% 0.081.0 MB 3.8% 0.29
Mar 24 08:00:00 - 08:59:59 355 5.1% 0.101.2 MB 4.5% 0.35
Mar 24 09:00:00 - 09:59:59 385 5.5% 0.111.4 MB 5.2% 0.40
Mar 24 10:00:00 - 10:59:59 425 6.1% 0.121.8 MB 6.5% 0.50
Mar 24 11:00:00 - 11:59:59 454 6.5% 0.131.7 MB 6.4% 0.49
Mar 24 12:00:00 - 12:59:59 435 6.2% 0.121.2 MB 4.4% 0.34
Mar 24 13:00:00 - 13:59:59 355 5.1% 0.101.3 MB 4.8% 0.37
Mar 24 14:00:00 - 14:59:59 389 5.6% 0.111.4 MB 5.0% 0.39
Mar 24 15:00:00 - 15:59:59 310 4.4% 0.091.1 MB 4.2% 0.33
Mar 24 16:00:00 - 16:59:59 299 4.3% 0.08995.5 KB 3.6% 0.28
Mar 24 17:00:00 - 17:59:59 292 4.2% 0.081.7 MB 6.4% 0.49
Mar 24 18:00:00 - 18:59:59 210 3.0% 0.06781.1 KB 2.8% 0.22
Mar 24 19:00:00 - 19:59:59 227 3.2% 0.061.9 MB 7.1% 0.55
Mar 24 20:00:00 - 20:59:59 216 3.1% 0.06879.5 KB 3.2% 0.24
Mar 24 21:00:00 - 21:59:59 141 2.0% 0.04538.1 KB 1.9% 0.15
Mar 24 22:00:00 - 22:59:59 194 2.8% 0.051.0 MB 3.8% 0.29
Mar 24 23:00:00 - 23:59:59 109 1.6% 0.03437.8 KB 1.6% 0.12
Mar 25 00:00:00 - 00:01:01 1 0.0% 0.022.4 KB 0.0% 0.04
TOTAL: 23:59:57 6988 100.0% 0.0827.1 MB 100.0% 0.32
Incoming articles
Incoming articles (size)

CNFS buffer status:

BufferClassSizeUsed%UsedCyclesKB/secDays
CYCNGS1NGS1536.0 GB48.0 MB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
CYCNGS2NGS1536.0 GB105.4 GB 6.9% 0 0.4937723.50
CYCNGS3NGS1536.0 GB48.0 MB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
CYCTXT1TEXT5.0 GB4.2 GB 83.5% 0 0.03 2188.22
TOTAL: 4-4613.0 GB109.7 GB 2.4% 1 0.38-

Sites sending bad articles:

ServerTotalGroupDistDuplicUnappTooOldSiteLineOther
1usenet.blueworldhosting.com 603 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 596
2usenet.goja.nl.eu.org 234 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 234
3nntp.comgw.net 175 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175
4newsfeed.bofh.team 138 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 137
5news.nntp4.net 123 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 122
6i2pn.org 82 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 82
7news.netfront.net 70 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 70
8endofthelinebbs-out.news.weretis.net 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48
9news.hispagatos.org 42 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 26
10194.87.241.33 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41
11news.dne3.net 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24
12usenet.network 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15
13endofthelinebbs.peers.news.panix.com 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
14peering.usenet.ovh 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
15newsfeed.xs3.de 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
16news.bbs.nz 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
17news.samoylyk.net 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
18endoftheline-out.news.chmurka.net 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
19news.furie.org.uk 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
TOTAL: 19 1618 18 0 1 7 0 0 0 1592

Unwanted newsgroups [Top 20]:

NewsgroupCount
hispagatos.mastodon.tag.hacking 14
hispagatos.mastodon.tag.hackers 2
alt.fan.trainspotting 1
soc.culture.russia 1
TOTAL: 4 18

Supposedly-moderated groups with unmoderated postings [Top 20]:

GroupsCount
talk.origins 7
TOTAL: 1 7

Perl filter (innd) [Top 20]:

ReasonCount
EMP (phn path) 756
EMP (phr path) 338
Too many newsgroups 282
EMP (md5) 92
User-issued cancel 25
Angle-bracket bot 20
Too many newsgroups (meow) 12
EMP (phr nph) 11
HTML Multipart 3
Subject (lsdXJlIFRvIE1ha2UgSGltIFdvcnNoaXAgU2F0YW4gVG8gU2Nob29sIEZsb3JpZGEgT24gU29jaWFsIE1lZGlhIE1vcmFsIFBhbmljcwpKdWRnZSBVc2VzIEQmROKAmXMgRmFpbHVyZSBUbyBNYWtlIEhpbSBXb3JzaGlwIFNhdGFuIFRvIFNjaG9vbCBGb 1
TOTAL: 10 1540

NoCeM on spool:

Issuer (type)NoticesBad PGPCancelSkipTotal
i2pn2-nocem@i2pn2.org (multipost)29003636
robot@pasdenom.info (spam2)15002121
robot@pasdenom.info (spam3)5002020
robot@pasdenom.info (spam4)6001919
i2pn2-nocem@i2pn2.org (rmp)5001111
TOTAL: 56000107107

Miscellaneous innd statistics [Top 10]:

EventServerNumber
Including strange strings
nntp.comgw.net 17
usenet.blueworldhosting.com 10
news.nntp4.net 7
newsfeed.bofh.team 6
usenet.goja.nl.eu.org 5
endofthelinebbs-out.news.weretis.net 2
i2pn.org 1
news.dne3.net 1
news.netfront.net 1
usenet.network 1
TOTAL: 10 51
No colon-space in header field
usenet.blueworldhosting.com 1
TOTAL: 1 1
TOTAL: 2 52

Outgoing feeds (innfeed) by articles:

ServerOfferedTakenRefusedRejectMissSpool%TookElapsed
1nyheter.lysator.liu.se 7376 2727 3613 642 0 0 36%23:59:36
2news.netfront.net 11350 1935 5022 0 0 27 17%23:59:50
3news.furie.org.uk 4602 1001 2521 19 0 0 21%23:59:09
4photonic.trudheim.com 8482 702 4565 1709 0 510 8%23:59:50
5endofthelinebbs.peers.news.panix.com 7487 437 6533 6 0 0 5%23:59:50
6peering.usenet.ovh 7785 406 6494 69 0 0 5%23:59:49
7news.dne3.net 5819 330 4961 164 0 0 5%23:59:50
8usenet.goja.nl.eu.org 7336 246 5610 22 0 0 3%23:59:50
9news.nntp4.net 7328 238 6148 4 0 32 3%23:59:36
10news.nk.ca 9626 111 6393 372 0 73 1%23:59:50
11i2pn.org 7662 104 6585 27 0 37 1%23:59:49
12news.corradoroberto.it 1291 77 761 0 0 0 5%22:58:03
13news.hispagatos.org 8189 76 6788 46 0 0 0%23:59:50
14news.bbs.nz 12961 68 6481 420 0 90 0%23:59:50
15newsfeed.bofh.team 7707 63 6535 1 0 0 0%23:58:47
16nntp.comgw.net 7229 52 6646 19 0 0 0%23:59:50
17usenet.network 8452 49 6223 26 0 0 0%23:58:23
18news.quux.org 7055 26 6258 280 0 0 0%23:59:35
19news.tnetconsulting.net 8979 25 6727 223 0 45 0%23:59:50
20news.weretis.net 7475 23 6812 147 0 3 0%23:58:14
21ddt.demos.su 81 16 64 0 0 0 19%09:09:13
22news.chmurka.net 4587 15 3214 0 0 0 0%23:59:35
23newsfeed.xs3.de 8793 11 6753 117 0 0 0%23:59:50
24news.samoylyk.net 10996 8 8959 24 0 362 0%23:59:50
25usenet.blueworldhosting.com 6612 1 5997 0 0 2 0%23:59:10
26feed.opticnetworks.net 0 0 0 0 0 6983 0%23:59:50
TOTAL: 26 185260 8747 136663 4337 0 8164 4%607:56:49
Outgoing feeds (innfeed) by articles

Outgoing feeds (innfeed) by volume:

ServerAcceptVolRejectVolTotalVolVolume/secVol/ArtElapsed
1news.netfront.net9.7 MB0.0 KB9.7 MB0.1 KB/s5.1 KB23:59:50
2nyheter.lysator.liu.se9.0 MB3.8 MB12.7 MB0.2 KB/s3.9 KB23:59:36
3news.furie.org.uk5.7 MB89.5 KB5.7 MB0.1 KB/s5.8 KB23:59:09
4peering.usenet.ovh2.7 MB231.3 KB3.0 MB0.0 KB/s6.4 KB23:59:49
5photonic.trudheim.com2.7 MB4.6 MB7.4 MB0.1 KB/s3.1 KB23:59:50
6endofthelinebbs.peers.news.panix.com2.2 MB5.9 KB2.3 MB0.0 KB/s5.2 KB23:59:50
7news.dne3.net664.0 KB1.6 MB2.2 MB0.0 KB/s4.6 KB23:59:50
8news.quux.org654.3 KB1.4 MB2.1 MB0.0 KB/s6.9 KB23:59:35
9news.nntp4.net500.1 KB16.4 KB516.5 KB0.0 KB/s2.1 KB23:59:36
10usenet.goja.nl.eu.org448.6 KB172.0 KB620.6 KB0.0 KB/s2.3 KB23:59:50
11news.samoylyk.net431.2 KB113.3 KB544.6 KB0.0 KB/s17.0 KB23:59:50
12ddt.demos.su421.1 KB0.0 KB421.1 KB0.0 KB/s26.3 KB09:09:13
13i2pn.org409.7 KB429.8 KB839.5 KB0.0 KB/s6.4 KB23:59:49
14usenet.network276.9 KB94.0 KB370.8 KB0.0 KB/s4.9 KB23:58:23
15newsfeed.bofh.team257.4 KB52.6 KB310.0 KB0.0 KB/s4.8 KB23:58:47
16news.nk.ca239.6 KB2.1 MB2.3 MB0.0 KB/s4.9 KB23:59:50
17news.bbs.nz232.4 KB2.5 MB2.8 MB0.0 KB/s5.8 KB23:59:50
18news.hispagatos.org214.7 KB226.3 KB441.0 KB0.0 KB/s3.6 KB23:59:50
19news.corradoroberto.it198.4 KB0.0 KB198.4 KB0.0 KB/s2.6 KB22:58:03
20news.tnetconsulting.net110.1 KB1.7 MB1.8 MB0.0 KB/s7.6 KB23:59:50
21nntp.comgw.net108.7 KB551.2 KB659.9 KB0.0 KB/s9.3 KB23:59:50
22news.chmurka.net86.8 KB0.0 KB86.8 KB0.0 KB/s5.8 KB23:59:35
23news.weretis.net83.9 KB1.6 MB1.7 MB0.0 KB/s10.1 KB23:58:14
24newsfeed.xs3.de68.4 KB888.4 KB956.8 KB0.0 KB/s7.5 KB23:59:50
25usenet.blueworldhosting.com1.2 KB0.0 KB1.2 KB0.0 KB/s1.2 KB23:59:10
26feed.opticnetworks.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s023:59:50
TOTAL: 2637.3 MB22.1 MB59.5 MB0.0 KB/s4.7 KB607:56:49
Outgoing feeds (innfeed) by volume

NNRP readership statistics [Top 100]:

SystemConnArtsSizeGroupsPostRejElapsed
12001:41d0:a:280::12774 00.0 KB 0 0 000:18:09
22a0e:73c2:8000:802c::22767 00.0 KB 0 0 000:22:19
3198.235.24.121 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:01
4198.235.24.72 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:00
520.171.30.224 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:09
6205.210.31.228 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:02
7dale.probe.onyphe.net 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:02
8holmes.probe.onyphe.net 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:00
9localhost 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:11:11
TOTAL: 95548 00.0 KB 0 0 000:51:57

NNRP connection statistics (by domain) [Top 100]:

SystemConnArtsSizeGroupsPostRejElapsed
1unresolved5545 00.0 KB 0 0 000:40:42
2*.probe.onyphe.net 2 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:03
3*localhost 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:11:11
TOTAL: 35548 00.0 KB 0 0 000:51:57

NNRP auth users [Top 20]:

UserConn
getlist 1
TOTAL: 1 1

NNRP total resource statistics [Top 20]:

SystemUser(ms)System(ms)Idle(ms)Elapsed
2a0e:73c2:8000:802c::2 10.419 33.653 0.00000:22:19
2001:41d0:a:280::1 10.521 33.640 0.00000:18:09
localhost 187.019 371.346 0.07700:11:11
20.171.30.224 0.004 0.011 0.00000:00:09
dale.probe.onyphe.net 0.005 0.010 0.00000:00:02
205.210.31.228 0.007 0.007 0.00000:00:02
198.235.24.121 0.004 0.011 0.00000:00:01
holmes.probe.onyphe.net 0.000 0.015 0.00000:00:00
198.235.24.72 0.000 0.015 0.00000:00:00
TOTAL: 9 207.979 438.708 0.07700:51:57

NNRP unrecognized commands (by host) [Top 20]:

SystemConn
holmes.probe.onyphe.net 2
TOTAL: 1 2

NNRP unrecognized commands (by command) [Top 20]:

CommandCount
#026#003#003#001?#001 1
?$?,?r?s?#023#002#023#001?#024?#007?#022?#023?'?/?#024?(?0?`?a... 1
TOTAL: 2 2
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