Malformed newsgroup control messages

Rajeev Lamba Rajeev.Lamba at Sun.COM
Mon Sep 27 22:52:00 UTC 2004


Hi,

 > Which version of INN are you running?  Any recent version should be using
 > controlchan, which will single-thread control message processing and
 > shouldn't produce a load impact.  It should be fine to just let
 > controlchan deal with reading and throwing away these messages.

We are running INN 2.3.4

-R.

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Rajeev Lamba <Rajeev.Lamba at Sun.COM> writes:
> 
> 
>>We are seeing frequent control messages to non-existing french
>>newsgroups on our news server.Noticed newsgoups have some french
>>(special) character and from badcontrol.log is reported as "Malformed
>>newsgroup name".
> 
> 
>>Everytime we get few of these malformed newsgroups postings have noticed
>>Load avg. on news servers shoots up momentarily. What would be the best
>>method to block/restrict these control message postings ?
> 
> 
> Which version of INN are you running?  Any recent version should be using
> controlchan, which will single-thread control message processing and
> shouldn't produce a load impact.  It should be fine to just let
> controlchan deal with reading and throwing away these messages.
> 


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