At this point, I would be recommending enabling the Debug argument to the Net::NNTP constructor in your script to show NNTP protocol communication between your client script and local news server.

For example:

rob@development:/home/rob$ cat nntp.perl
use Net::NNTP;
use Socket;

my $nntp = Net::NNTP->new('news-server', 'Debug' => 1);
my $hostaddr = $nntp->connected;
print inet_ntoa((sockaddr_in($hostaddr))[1]), "\n" if defined $hostadd
+r;

rob@development:/home/rob$ perl nntp.perl
Net::NNTP>>> Net::NNTP(2.22)
Net::NNTP>>>   Net::Cmd(2.24)
Net::NNTP>>>     Exporter(5.562)
Net::NNTP>>>   IO::Socket::INET(1.25)
Net::NNTP>>>     IO::Socket(1.26)
Net::NNTP>>>       IO::Handle(1.21)
Net::NNTP=GLOB(0x8262444)<<< 200 Welcome to BigPond Broadband - http:/
+/www.telstra.com/ (Typhoon v2.0.4.336)
Net::NNTP=GLOB(0x8262444)>>> MODE READER
Net::NNTP=GLOB(0x8262444)<<< 200 Welcome to BigPond Broadband - http:/
+/www.telstra.com/ (Typhoon v2.0.4.336)
61.9.191.5
Net::NNTP=GLOB(0x8262444)>>> QUIT
Net::NNTP=GLOB(0x8262444)<<< 205 GoodBye

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Furthermore, I would recommend comparing the return result of the connected method with the socket status as reported by operating system tools such as netstat - The usage of this tool to show the status of established TCP sockets would be netstat -t under Linux and netstat -p tcp under Windows.

 

perl -le "print+unpack'N',pack'B32','00000000000000000000001010100110'"

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Net::NNTP ping? by rob_au
in thread Net::NNTP ping? by akis

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