OT : INN news server

Any INNd experts here who can answer this one?

I've got everything working at the moment, INNd happily working with
suck, storing articles from the german and cheesy servers, and sending
any local posts back to the german server.

Locally generated posts are identified by the INNd generated Message-
IDs, suck greps these, strips them out and then posts them back to the
german server.

The problem I have is clients that create their own Message-IDs, as
these can be anything, so they're not picked up by the suck script, and
so not forwarded onto the outside world.


I think I could do one of three things;
1 For any posts coming from clients in the local users auth in
readers.conf, if a Message-ID exists, reject the post.
2 For any posts coming from clients in the local users auth in
readers.conf, strip off the Message-ID.
3 Find some way of getting INN to write posts coming from a particular
local users auth'd in readers.conf to a seperate file, then suck doesn't
need to grep round to find the locally generated posts.

I think 1 will be the easiest, but I can't figure out how to do any of
the three ways?

 

Nope. Without going all Derek Turner on you: *leafnode* + crontab.
YKIMS.

Oh, and an ssh tunnel for remote access.

 

Pah, I could have a C90 instead of the 9R too.

Of course, been there for years.

 

I suspected as much.

 

Do you need the full performance of INN?

Leafnode is a very capable and easy to use news server.

 

*ding* *ding* *dingly* fucking AOL. I think that frag is playing for the
sake of it.

 

It is for home use, yes.

I just don't see the point of changing news servers completely when the
alternative is fixing this last little (?) problem.

I may look into leafnode just for something to do as I'm stuck indoors
and bored at the moment.

Tunnelier rocks to access all my PCs on my home LAN from work

 

I'm not saying it isn't! You are spot on though.

I've used INN for years, and I agree its horrendously complicated and
overkill for what I need, but OTOH I like sorting out problems and
tinkering

 

Le Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:58:54 +0100, fragmented a écrit :

You could do it in a different way, using newsfeeds syntax.

You have one entry for each feed (german and cheesy).
You just have to define path exclusions for these servers, allowing only
locally-generated posts to go upstream.

Example:

cheesy.server/german.path,cheesy.path\
:!*,uk.*,any.group.you.want.to.receive\
:Ap,H1,Tf,Wnm:


german.server/german.path,cheesy.path\
:!*,uk.*,any.group.you.want.to.receive\
:Ap,H1,Tf,Wnm:

The H1 parameter on the last line (devfault value if not specified)
implies that an article will only be sent to this site if it has 1 or
fewer sites in its Path: line. In other words, onlly locally generated
posts, with your Path.

HTH.

 

says...>

Cheers.

Don't like that newsfeeds file, the syntax is a little confusing to say
the least!

I'll have a play.

 

See you this time, next year.

 

Le Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:01:49 +0000, fragmented a écrit :

If you find it difficult, just try readers.conf.

If you want only locally generated post to go upstream, I think that
exclusion path is a better way to do it.

BTW newsx is more efficient than suck, but the best method is to get a
feed from a peer.

 

readers.conf is easy, it uses English keywords!

Ta, will have a look into it.

 

I couldn't deprive you of my wit for that long

 

Le Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:11:41 +0000, fragmented a écrit :

Writing about feeds, I can feed fr.* groups, and I am searching a feed
for ukrm and ukrmc.

 

Ahem, you already have one

 

I've just worked out why your posts don't show. You may be falling
foul of a few people's kill rules.

 

Not mine, it doesn't KF real frogs only annoying pseudo yid ones.

 

I can feed ukrm, don't take ukrmc but can add it if its low volume
enough.

Email me to sort out peering.

There's nothing in the fr.* heirarchy I want thanks.

 

Now what I can't work out is why it is letting your 'despammed'
through but not Francis's posts. Hmmm.