INN 2.3.2 - Security features

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, amran at isp.time.net.my wrote:

> What are the security features that INN 2.3.2 can provide to my newsgroup
> service?
> (such as prevent from spamming, ip spoofing, hacking etc....)


Ah, you prevent spamming by using a reasonable authentication scheme
(readers.conf provides a powerful pluggable method for doing this).  IP
spoofing is no more an issue than with any other TCP-based service; don't
worry about it.  Other than that, you trust the generally high quality of
the coding in INN to be resistant to attacks (e.g., buffer overflows).


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org