ietf-nntp Re: Last major open issue (48x return codes)

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Sep 11 10:37:29 PDT 2003


Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> Russ Allbery said:

>> So far as I know, INN is the only implementation (and isn't using 483
>> properly yet).

> Just out of interest, why is it 483 rather than 481?

> [This is just my spirit of neatness speaking.]

481 is already used for two other edge cases.  It's the return from innd
for bad authentication (nnrpd just returns 502 and closes the connection),
and it's the return code for calling XGTITLE without an argument.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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