INN commit: trunk/doc/pod (news.pod)

INN Commit Russ_Allbery at isc.org
Sat Oct 25 17:29:12 UTC 2008


    Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008 @ 10:29:11
  Author: iulius
Revision: 8147

First upgrade note for INN 2.5:  nnrpd now cannot bind to any port.

Modified:
  trunk/doc/pod/news.pod

----------+
 news.pod |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

Modified: news.pod
===================================================================
--- news.pod	2008-10-25 17:15:31 UTC (rev 8146)
+++ news.pod	2008-10-25 17:29:11 UTC (rev 8147)
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+=head1 Upgrading from 2.4 to 2.5
+
+The following upgrade process is still under construction and not complete.
+
+=over 2
+
+=item *
+
+By default, innbind(8) refuses to bind to any port under 1024 other than 119,
+433 and 563 for security reasons.  In order to run B<innd> or B<nnrpd>
+on a different port under 1024, you will have to use the B<--with-innd-port>
+configure option if there is only one supplementary port to use.  Otherwise,
+you can use inetd(8), xinetd(8), or some equivalent, to achieve your need.
+
+=back
+
 =head1 Changes in 2.5.0
 
 =over 2



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