With the risk of flooding over their mailbox, I have also sent a mail, and I include a copy of what I sent below:
Since Oct 23rd the NNTP bridge has not been usable. For the first two weeks I did not suffer, as I was travelling, but now it's getting an obstacle.
Originally there were three issues, of which one has been resolved: posts from the NNTP bridge never made it to the forums. Two issues remain:
1) The NNTP bridge only sees new posts in the forums about once a day. This may be an intended change, but permit me to point that this is not feasible. The feed to the NNTP bridge does not have to be real-time, but the delay should not exceed 15-30 minutes.
Please bear in mind that many of us who use the NNTP bridge are people who answer questions. We may be a small minority, but we add quite some value to the forums. Answering forum posts is far from always a matter of answering in a single post. In many cases,
we need to ask for supplementary posts, so we need to see replies from the original poster far more often than once a day. (And the longer the delay is, the bigger the risk is that we post an answer when a perfectly feasible answer has been posted, why our
answer only becomes unwelcome noise.)
2) When trying to access some forums with high traffic, this always seem to fail. For my part it is the Transact-SQL Forum, but I have seen this reported to other forums. My newsreader opens the newsgroup, sits there for several minutes, and eventually there
may be an error message. Below is a trace that shows the error message.
[Client: 15] ClassifyCommand: GROUP Msdn.en-US.transactsql
[Client: 15] Received: Command: GROUP, Parameters: Msdn.en-US.transactsql
[Client: 15] Received: Response: 211 513009 1 513009 Msdn.en-US.transactsql group selected
[Client: 15] ClassifyCommand: XOVER 512727-513009
[Client: 15] Received: Command: XOVER, Parameters: 512727-513009
[Client 15] DataReceived failed: Exception:
Type System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException
Source: mscorlib
Message: An error occurred while receiving the HTTP response to
http://services.social.microsoft.com/ForumsServicePreview/ForumsService.svc. This could be due to the service endpoint binding not using the HTTP protocol. This could also be due to an HTTP request context being aborted by the server (possibly due to the
service shutting down). See server logs for more details.
Stack-Trace:
Server stack trace:
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelUtilities.ProcessGetResponseWebException(WebException webException, HttpWebRequest request, HttpAbortReason abortReason)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelFactory`1.HttpRequestChannel.HttpChannelRequest.WaitForReply(TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.RequestChannel.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.RequestChannelBinder.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.Call(String action, Boolean oneway, ProxyOperationRuntime operation, Object[] ins, Object[] outs, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.InvokeService(IMethodCallMessage methodCall, ProxyOperationRuntime operation)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.Invoke(IMessage message)
Exception rethrown at [0]:
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
at CommunityForumsNNTPServer.WebServiceDataSource.Forums.IForumsService.GetForumMessagesBriefForNNTP(Guid forumId, Int32 nntpMessageStartIndex, Int32 nntpMessageEndIndex, Boolean loadBody)
at CommunityForumsNNTPServer.WebServiceDataSource.Forums.ForumsServiceClient.GetForumMessagesBriefForNNTP(Guid forumId, Int32 nntpMessageStartIndex, Int32 nntpMessageEndIndex, Boolean loadBody)
at CommunityForumsNNTPServer.WebServiceDataSource.MicrosoftForumsServiceProvider.<>c__DisplayClass24.<GetForumMessagesBriefForNNTP>b__22()
at CommunityForumsNNTPServer.WebServiceDataSource.MicrosoftForumsServiceProvider.RetryCall[TResult](Func`1 func, UInt32 retryCount)
at CommunityForumsNNTPServer.WebServiceDataSource.MicrosoftForumsServiceProvider.GetForumMessagesBriefForNNTP(Guid forumId, Int32 nntpMessageStartIndex, Int32 nntpMessageEndIndex, Boolean loadBody)
at CommunityForumsNNTPServer.WebServiceDataSource.MicrosoftForumsServiceProvider.<>c__DisplayClassd`1.<GetForumMessagesBriefForNntp>b__b(Int32 index, Int32 batchSize, Boolean& finished)
at CommunityForumsNNTPServer.WebServiceDataSource.MicrosoftForumsServiceProvider.BuildResultsInBatch_[T,T2](Func`2 converter, MyFunc`4 generator, Action`1 progressResult)
at CommunityForumsNNTPServer.WebServiceDataSource.MicrosoftForumsServiceProvider.GetForumMessagesBriefForNntp[T](Guid forumId, Int32 firstArticle, Int32 lastArticle, Boolean loadBody, Func`2 converter, Action`1 progress)
at CommunityForumsNNTPServer.ForumDataSource.GetArticlesByNumberToStream(String clientUsername, String groupName, Int32 firstArticle, Int32 lastArticle, Action`1 articlesProgressAction)
at CommunityForumsNNTPServer.NNTPServer.NntpCommandXOver.Parse(String parameters, Action`1 writeAction, Client client)
at CommunityForumsNNTPServer.NNTPServer.NntpServer.DataReceived(String data, Int32 clientNumber)Exception:
Type System.Net.WebException
Source: System
Message: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.
Stack-Trace:
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelFactory`1.HttpRequestChannel.HttpChannelRequest.WaitForReply(TimeSpan timeout)Exception:
Type System.IO.IOException
Source: System
Message: Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
Stack-Trace:
at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)
at System.Net.PooledStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)
at System.Net.Connection.SyncRead(HttpWebRequest request, Boolean userRetrievedStream, Boolean probeRead)Exception:
Type System.Net.Sockets.SocketException
Source: System
Message: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
Socket ErrorCode: 10054
Stack-Trace:
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Receive(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)
Answers send by NNTP Community Bridge do not show up in threads sind 23.October 2015 and updates only once a day?
