Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 08:40:43 -0600 (MDT) From: Joshua Fielden <shaggy@houseofduck.dyn.ml.org> To: andreas@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas.klemm@wup.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: inn problem, don't receive news Message-ID: <XFMail.970728084239.shaggy@houseofduck.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19970728161455.30081@wup.de>
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just as a heads-up, 1.5 was the version found to have a security hole in it... http://www.computerworld.com/news/index.html#970725SECURITY has the story On 28-Jul-97 Andreas Klemm wrote: >Hi ! > >I'm struggeling with inn 1.5.1 on my companies FreeBSD >Gateway machine (FreeBSD-2.2-STABLE). > >I only have experience with inn getting news via UUCP. >This worked fine so far. But now I deceided, to get >news faster, so our internet service provider and I >tried to change the delivery to immediate delivery. > >At my site I added his site (news.technet.net) to >my sites (news.wup.de) hosts.nntp file: > >## hosts.nntp - names and addresses that feed us news >news.technet.net: > >For outgoing - which is currently working well here - >I changed the entries in the newsfeeds file from: ># meservb/ddfservb.technet.net,meservb.technet.net,news.technet.net\ ># :*,!wup*,!junk,!local*,!control/!foo\ ># :Tf,Wfb: > >to > >technet/ddfservb.technet.net,meservb.technet.net,news.technet.net\ > :*,!wup*,!junk,!local*,!control/!foo\ > :Tf,Wnm: > >My nntpsend.ctl file looks like this: >technet:news.technet.net:2m: > >My crontab entry checks for news and deliveres every 5 Minutes ... > >5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55,0 * * * * /usr/local/news/bin/nntpsend >technet news.technet.net > >The only thing I want to now is, what might be the reason, that >I don't receive any news from him ??? > >What else do I have to configure, that he is allowed to send me news >using nntpsend (Netscape news server) ??? > >I see no debug/log file, that indicates an error.... > >Any thoughts ??? > > > Andreas Klemm /// > -- Joshua Fielden, shag@concentric.net SCSI is *not* magic. There are many technical reasons why it's occasionally nessicary to sacrifice a small goat to your SCSI chain.
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