newsbin.com

Why did newsbin try 26 times on my primary server, then twice on an alternate, before finally finding the article on another alternate server?
Had it tried only twice on the primary server, I would have had the article in ~3s instead of 21s.
Retries is set to only 1 in the options.
EDIT: This is 6.40B4 1948.

[13:54:08] HIGH - Par2Repair - Multi-core 1.2
[13:54:08] DEBUG - High Speed File Creation Mode: Enabled
[13:54:08] HIGH - Aggressive Assembly mode: Enabled
[13:54:08] HIGH - PAR Pausing: Enabled
[13:54:23] DEBUG - Create Display List
[13:54:54] DEBUG - SSL Unable to Add Zlib Compression
[13:54:58] HIGH - SSL Unable to Add Zlib Compression
[13:54:58] LOW - Connection Status: SSL Connection Server: news.frugalusenet.com Stats: AES256-SHA 256 TLSv1/SSLv3
[13:55:01] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:01] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:03] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:03] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:06] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:06] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:09] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:09] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:12] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:12] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:16] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:16] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:19] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:19] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:23] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:23] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:26] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:26] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:28] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:28] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:31] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:31] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:34] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:34] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:37] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:37] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:40] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:40] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:43] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:43] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:45] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:45] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:48] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:48] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:51] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:51] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:54] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:54] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:55:57] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:57] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:56:00] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:56:00] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:56:03] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:56:03] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:56:06] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:56:06] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:56:09] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:56:09] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:56:12] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:56:12] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:56:15] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:56:15] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:56:16] HIGH - SSL Unable to Add Zlib Compression
[13:56:16] LOW - Connection Status: SSL Connection Server: ssl-us.astraweb.com Stats: RC4-SHA 128 TLSv1/SSLv3
[13:56:17] HIGH Download Engine ssl-us.astraweb.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::ssl-us.astraweb.com
[13:56:17] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:56:18] HIGH Download Engine ssl-us.astraweb.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::ssl-us.astraweb.com
[13:56:18] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.
[13:56:18] HIGH - SSL Unable to Add Zlib Compression
[13:56:19] LOW - Connection Status: SSL Connection Server: eunews.frugalusenet.com Stats: AES256-SHA 256 TLSv1/SSLv3
[13:58:13] DEBUG NNTPServerWorker - Download: Idle Connection Closed:news.frugalusenet.com
[13:58:18] DEBUG NNTPServerWorker - Download: Idle Connection Closed:ssl-us.astraweb.com
[13:58:20] DEBUG NNTPServerWorker - Download: Idle Connection Closed:eunews.frugalusenet.com

It gets worse. Newsbin has been trying for 15mins, over and over to get an article from 2 of the servers (1 master, 1 slave), and hasn't even tried the other 3 servers (1 slave, 2 master).
The fail over server code needs a review, as does allowing us to prioritze servers.
I don't think newsbin is ever going to try the other 3 servers.

In the network options, check "Show server commands". I'd like to see more details on the errors. I have 2 servers, 2 primary and a fill and the fill server gets used after a block fails on both of the primaries. Your results are different than mine so, I'd want to see more errors.

I don't think the problem is retries or switching servers. I think there's some more fundamental problem. Failing to download chunks should be showing 430 errors. You're not seeing that. That means the error is from something unexpected. I wonder if frugal does something non-standard for DMCA takedowns (Like Astraweb does)?

[13:55:01] HIGH Download Engine news.frugalusenet.com - INT_OpenItem -DL_DI - Failed to retrieve Article from Server::news.frugalusenet.com
[13:55:01] DEBUG - FreeWork: Download already deleted from Download list.

Shouldn't be happening if the files are still in the download list. Maybe you should try a non-beta and see if it does the same thing. Like 6.34

Might be worth wiping things and stasting over with a couple files.