Current 2.3 under Solaris 7/x86 ...

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> > 	Just finished upgrading my 2.3 server to, like, yesterdays code
> > and am still seeing the nnrpd core dump when someone connects from an
> > external site.  I recompiled with debugging enabled, so that I could give
> > *some* results, so here goes.
> > 
> > readers.conf is (which I believe should be okay now?):
> 
>   Well, I still believe that the default belongs first, because this is a
> "last match" file. INN is consistent, all configs are either first match
> or last match;-)

Okay ... huh?  the default is "internal", no?  I just reversed the order
of the two 'records' from what I had sent originally, so either
"internal" is default, or "external" is ... :)


 > 
>   I suggest that you start up an nnrpd daemon on an alternate port, with
> trace enabled, and look in whatever log gets your news.debug output from
> syslog. Mine is news/logs/news.trace for example. That should show you in
> total detail what the validation is doing, and is how I changed mine from
> not working to ungly but functional.
> 
> -- 1 --
> 
>   nnrpd -D -t -p1100
> 
> -- 2 --
> 
>   ( from remote host )
>   telnet newshost 1100
> 
> Hope this gets you on the track...
> 
> 	-bill
> 
> > ====================================
> > auth "internal" {
> >         hosts: "*.acadiau.ca,131.162.*"
> >         default: "unknown at acadiau.ca"
> > }
> > auth "external" {
> >         hosts: "*"
> >         auth: "radius -f /news/admin/etc/radius.conf"
> > }
> > access "default" {
> >         users: "*"
> >         newsgroups: "*"
> >         access: "Read Post"
> > }
> 
> -- 
> bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
>   CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
> Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
> 

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