You may experience expiration issues, memory leaks, or other problems when you host an NNTP virtual server on your Windows 2000-based server (831185)

SYMPTOMS

When you host an NNTP virtual server on your Microsoft Windows 2000-based server, you may experience one or more of the following behaviors.

If you rebuild a hash table on an NNTP virtual server that has been offline or otherwise disconnected from the network, the article time in the hash table is stamped with the rebuild time. This behavior may cause items that should have expired to remain on the server.
When you configure multiple sink events, the NNTP service may experience a memory leak. This memory leak eventually consumes all available memory resources.
If you have a third-party onpost event sink configured, the NNTP service may stop responding when that event sink rejects a message.

RESOLUTION

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites are required.

Restart requirement

You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix does not replace any other hotfixes

File information

The English version of this has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

   Date         Time   Version        Size     File name
   -------------------------------------------------------
   05-Nov-2003  19:42  5.0.2195.6871  136,976  Nntpfs.dll       
   05-Nov-2003  19:42  5.0.2195.6871  612,624  Nntpsvc.dll

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about how hotfix packages are named, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

816915 New file naming schema for Microsoft Windows software update packages

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates